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Month: August 2017

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Sierra Leone UN Mission steps up relief assistance efforts for mudslide victims : Holds meeting with Interfaith council and Masjid Ali in New Jersey

August 28, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BY KABS KANU : The Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations in New York last Friday August 25, 2017  accelerated its outreach to Sierra Leoneans and organizations […]

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Bollore donates another Half Billion Leones for mudslide victims

August 28, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Country Manager,Capt Fabjanko Kokan Bollore Afelease of figures of missing persons and houses consumed by the disaster by the office of National Security (ONS), Bollore group through its country office […]

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Four vehicles swept into Dundas Street Samba gutter as more flood waters ravage central Freetown

August 27, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Last night’s heavy rain and flooding in Freetown resulted in four vehicles being swept into the samba gutter by Dundas Street.  This is the initial report coming in this morning. […]

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Freetown being lashed by more heavy rain and flooding tonight

August 27, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Heavy rain would not let up in Freetown tonight and the city is said to have been suffering from more flooding , with frightened residents of the Kroo Bay slums […]

COMMENTARY

500 Million dollars for Sierra Leone’s disaster preparedness: the World Bank comes in muscularly

August 26, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By State House Communication Unit World Bank (W/B) Country Manager Parminder Brar on Friday 25th August, 2017, presented a technical team from World Bank to Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma […]

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SIERRA LEONE IN CRISIS AS GLOBAL WARMING RELEASES ITS VENOM.

August 26, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

                What are the most pressing environmental health issues from global climate change? Global Climate Change is gaining the world’s attention every day. Its effects are becoming more evident to […]

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Minister of State Gibril Sesay attends TICAD Ministerial meeting in Mozambique

August 26, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Minister of State I, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Mohamed Gibril Sesay is currently attending the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Ministerial […]

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The Krios are coming to New Brunswick

August 26, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
ACTION NEWS

PRESS BRIEFING : UNOWAS REPRESENTATIVE PAYS COURTESY CALL ON MRU SECRETARY GENERAL

August 25, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

PRESS BRIEFING   UNOWAS REPRESENTATIVE PAYS COURTESY CALL ON MRU SECRETARY GENERAL MRU Communications   Freetown 24th August 2017 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) and Head of the […]

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*APC mourns, presents mudslide emergency response donation to Vice President Foh*

August 25, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

    The National Secretariat of the governing All People’s Congress (APC) on Thursday 24th August, 2017 made an exemplary donation to Hon. Vice President, Dr. Victor Bockarie Foh at […]

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  • Taking the Mining discourse to another level:  Patriotism Must Be Grounded in Reality:
  • Big losses for Sierra Leone media: Accident claims lives of SLBC camera journalist and female intern
  • The Battle for Hearts and Minds Descends into The Abyss of Moral Politic, Witch-hunt and Gas lighting
  • The Voice Returns: Christiana Kamara Stuns Sierra Leone in Her Triumphant Return with Bormeh.
  • The FBC students union and NUSS used to be very potent institutions fighting for the welfare of Sierra Leoneans, but today……
  • Can Africa break free from Western models of governance and development and reset and repackage for a brighter future ?
  • How can a President who has no vision for his country be talking about a vision for Africa ?
  • God changed her life in a flash: From marketwoman to First Lady of Liberia : RIP, Nancy Doe
  • Monkeypox crisis in Sierra Leone : Public health emergency or a donor – driven delay ?
  • C- BAH SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF
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  • Phebean Samura: Watch and see what will happen soon. Sierra Leone will be a Democratic country very soon. FORGET ABOUT 2028. WE…
  • Catherine Higgins: Remarkable how journalists can write about APC and what not... but you never seem to have the spine to demand…
  • Amadu M. Kamara: Comment no. 2 above continues thusly: if the firebrand do seriously intend indeed to show their numerical strength versus the…

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TOGETHER, WE CAN OVERCOME EBOLA

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PRESIDENT KOROMA : LET US MOBILIZE BEHIND HIM  Sierra Leone is a resilient country. We are a resilient people. We have overcome many difficult challenges before as a nation. God’s […]

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