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  • [ May 1, 2025 ] Guinea expands illegal occupation of Yenga, opens fire on residents and forces everybody to flee ACTION NEWS
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Police explain why they arrested Sylvia Blyden

May 7, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

After a long period of silence and keeping the nation in suspense, the Sierra Leone Police have at last released a statement about their reasons for arresting popular politician and […]

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Sierra Leone struggles against rising Covid-19 curve

May 6, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Published on 6 May, 2020 Sierra Leone is experiencing a sharp increase in COVID-19 infections with sixty-eight new cases in the last seventy-two hours; bringing the total to two-hundred and […]

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Riot at Tombo Fishing Village

May 6, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Alpha Kamara Riot in Tombo leaves 2 dead and offices burnt down. Riot in Tombo,outside Freetown leaves 2 dead and houses burnt down. My sources say the riot started […]

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Allie Badara Kamara : Another great man is gone

May 4, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

ALHAJI BADARA KAMARA Another big tree in New Jersey has fallen. May his soul rest in peace. THE LATE ALHAJI ALLIE BADARA KAMARA : A GREAT MAN GONE He was […]

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International Criminal Court may investigate President Bio

May 4, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The International Criminal Court ( ICC )  has responded to the letter sent to them by the Diaspora Focus Group which wants Sierra Leone’s President , retired Brig. Maada Bio […]

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COVID-19 claims life of another COCORIOKO official : Alex Mansaray is dead

May 4, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

A second member of the Cocorioko newspaper has died of the coronavirus.  Yesterday, another big tree fell in Somerset, New Jersey as Alex Mansaray passed away after struggling with the […]

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Sierra Leone’s Deputy Ambassador to the UK dies

May 4, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Tamba Lamina H.E. Agnes Dugba-Macauley was a sister, confidant, work colleague and a political soulmate. What made our relationship so special was that Agnes was a true and passionate […]

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Fifty-Fifty Group of Women concerned about recent arrests of women in Sierra Leone

May 4, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
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APC condemns arbitrary arrest and detention of Sylvia Olayinka Blyden

May 4, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
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NGC worried about rising political tension in Sierra Leone

May 4, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

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  • Government and Koidu Holdings in stalemate over workers’ better wages and good working conditions
  • UPDATE!!! Uneasy Calm Returns to Central Freetown After Ojeh-Linked Tensions
  • Guinea expands illegal occupation of Yenga, opens fire on residents and forces everybody to flee
  • True Independence and Freedom can only exist in doing what is right
  • Video : Sierra Leone gains Independence from Britain and the 1961 Royal Visit
  • Reflections on Sierra Leone’s 64th Independence Anniversary : A nation still in waiting
  • There will never be world peace until imperialism is dead : Hands off Ibrahim Traore
  • Sierra Leone’s 64th Independence Anniversary Poem by Nicholas Godwin
  • Sierra Leone at 64 : A nation at the crossroads of reflection and regret
  • 64 years after Sierra Leone’s Independence : Sierra Leone’s ongoing struggles and the road to renewal
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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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Government and Koidu Holdings in stalemate over workers’ better wages and good working conditions

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UPDATE!!! Uneasy Calm Returns to Central Freetown After Ojeh-Linked Tensions

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Urgent Appeal for Security Intervention We are urgently calling on the Central Police Division to intervene in a violent situation unfolding in the Horton Street and Frederick Street area of […]

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Bangura Rethinks U.N.’s Sex-Violence Patrol

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The new U.N. point person on sexual violence in armed conflict doesn’t plan to do it on her own., a former health minister from Sierra Leone, is tapping governments to […]

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MY PERSONAL TRIBUTE ON THE LATE AMBASSADOR SIRAY ALPHA TIMBO

May 2, 2017 0

BY ALHAJI M.B. JALLOH, PRESS ATTACHE, SAUDI ARABIA AND THE GULF STATES Actually, this is a tribute I had wanted to write immediately after the funeral of my brother, friend, […]

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TODAY IS NATIONAL THANKSGIVING DAY

November 21, 2015 0

Today, Saturday, November 21st has been declared National Day of Thanksgiving by His Excellency the President, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma to give thanks for the end of the Ebola outbreak […]

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President Koroma delivered a well-structured , compact, engaging and effective speech at the UN

October 6, 2015 0

By KABS KANU : How can people who are so screwed up  in their thinking, logic and appreciation of President Ernest Koroma’s achievements credit him with anything good ? Even […]

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Sierra Leone Government dismayed by whooping lie by Global Times tabloid

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September 23, 2011 | Filed under: Breaking News,Diaspora,Headlines,Lead Story | Posted by: Cocorioko News The Office of the Government Spokesman has read with dismay an article in the Global Times […]

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