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Freetown is dangerously overpopulated and overstretched : Return to your villages and make farms

August 9, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

   YES, WE CAN BLAME OUR GOVERNMENTS FOR NOT PROVIDING THE BASIC STRUCTURES AND LEADERSHIP TO INSPIRE US BUT WE TOO HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY TO BECOME PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS. […]

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Financing environmental priorities: how recipient countries are taking center stage in delivering GEF-7 strategy

August 9, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Keywords:  Capacity Development | Country Support Programme The agenda to transform Freetown has created an opportunity for the country to tackle the many challenges of urbanization. National Dialogue in Sierra Leone explored […]

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Karamoh Kabba, Others Refused Bail

August 8, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Haja Adama Kamara Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Magistrate Court No 1 yesterday refused Karamoh Kabba, the National Organizing Secretary of the main opposition All Peoples Congress and twenty-two others […]

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When “Enough is Enough”…..Not Enough?

August 8, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

    We are resilient We are strong We are El Paso We stand together These are the words from the local community living in El Paso-Texas, and these will […]

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Sierra Leone Police brutalize protesting Njala University students

August 8, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Protesting students of Njala University were brutally manhandled and beaten mercilessly  by riot squad of the Sierra Leone Police Force yesterday, raising the troubling spectre that  police highhandedness and brutality […]

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More rain floods submerge communities at Freetown peninsula and around Sierra Leone

August 7, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU— With Freetown still reeling from the weekend heavy rains and flooding that killed 7 people and rendered  hundreds of residents homeless , torrential  rain inflicted more agony […]

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Is Globetrotting Thy Name, Mr President?

August 6, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) I am not a “Drunkardnomics” like most of those who are, at present, managing Sierra Leone’s economy. I have been a teetotal all my life. […]

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You Can Fool Some People Some time, But……..

August 6, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

It is an open secret that the relationship between our 2 major political parties, the SLPP and APC is one of attrition.  There is no doubt that these parties would […]

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Elections-related violent incidents ‘constitute an early warning sign that should not be swept under the carpet’ –NCD

August 6, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2019 AT 12 NOON SUBJECT: NCD CALLS FOR CALM IN CONSTITUENCY 110! It has come to the notice of the Management […]

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  The Annual Health Ministers (AHM) meeting of the West African Health Organization (WAHO) is taking place today at the ECOWAS centre in Abuja. The Team in attendance representing Sierra […]

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Suspension of key accountability laws will undermine public trust in the Sierra Leone Government

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PRES RELEASE SUSPENSION OF KEY ACCOUNTABILITY LAWS WILL UNDERMINE PUBLIC TRUST IN SIERRA LEONE GOVERNMENT’S CORONA VIRUS RESPONSE EFFORTS Freetown – 20th May 2020 We, the undersigned civil society organisations, […]

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