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Why President Bio is accountable for the atrocities and killings in Sierra Leone

September 15, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By KABS KANU Former UN Diplomat Yesterday, many Sierra Leoneans, some of them supporters of the ruling SLPP, displayed strong aversion to our articles blaming President Maada Bio for […]

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British MP turns pressure on President Bio, as efforts to seek international attention to his gross human rights abuses in Sierra Leone heighten

September 15, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU Hon. Neil Coyle, the British Labour Party MP for Southwark in London, is helping to trump up  concerted efforts by Sierra Leoneans and foreign friends alike to […]

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SIERRA LEONE POLICE MUST AVOID BEING USED AND THEIR GAINS OVERTURNED BY THIS ABUSIVE SLPP GOVERNMENT

September 14, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  There is no doubt that the attack and atrocities at Mile 91 were reprehensible, disgraceful and damaging to the reputation of the Sierra Leone Police Force, if indeed they […]

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MINISTERS’ EMOLUMENTS WILL WRECK SIERRA LEONE ECONOMY – PAOPA MINISTERS FOR BETTEH.

September 14, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Saidu Nbompa Leaf Recent information making the rounds indicate that salaries for Ministers have been exponentially increased from le12,000,000 to le20,000,000 per month. It is also stated that yearly […]

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Lungi Bridge will jeopardise our economy for ages!

September 14, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Idrissa Conteh : I have just read the news story below posted on a WhatsApp forum on President Julius Maada Bio’s recent official visit to China and would like […]

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Gender Equity : Meet Kamissa Camara, Mali’s Youngest and First Female Minister for Foreign Affairs

September 14, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

HOW AFRICA FEATURE Re-elected president of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has named a 35-year-old Kamissa Camara as the new minister for foreign affairs in his recent cabinet reshuffle. A step by the […]

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World leaders bid farewell to Kofi Annan

September 14, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Source: Xinhua| 2018-09-14 01:08:25|Editor: yan Soldiers escort the casket of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan during Annan’s state funeral in Accra, Ghana, on Sept. 13, 2018. A number of African and […]

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The Biography of the Late UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

September 14, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Date: Sep 13 , 2018 , 13:25 BY: Edmund Smith-Asante Kofi Atta Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), began his term on January 1, 1997 after his recommendation […]

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Ghana President says Kofi Annan’s passing is a huge loss to all

September 14, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Accra, Sept. 13, GNA – President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, eulogised the Seventh UN Secretary-General and astute Ghanaian statesman, saying “Ghana, Africa and the world have suffered […]

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In a State of State Sponsored Human Rights Abuses

September 11, 2018 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Karamoh Kabba   The proverbial global village is blind and deaf to the cry of kumbaya in Sierra Leone all over again in the hands of a former military […]

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  • More drama in Sierra Leone as Chief Justice orders the arrest of former Justice Minister JFK for yesterday’s tense exchanges at the Supreme Court
  • Another big political drama in Sierra Leone as APC and Supreme Court clash over disputed Constitutional Amendment Bill
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