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SLPP Women’s leader Fatmata Sawaneh on a dangerous and wrong direction

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

By John Leigh THE SLPP WOMEN LEADER, MADAM SAWANEH, IS NO MAMMY YOKO. SHE IS ON TO AN UNNECESSARY, DANGEROUS AND WRONG DIRECTION! In my view, Madam Sawaneh is the […]

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Lahai Lawrence Lema is fanning the flames of chaos in post-war Sierra Leone

May 3, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Moses Ben Kanu Sierra Leone, once a peaceful country after eleven years of political turmoil now enters a new face of political unrest orchestrated by one man, that’s SLPP […]

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SLAJ VISITS SYLVIA BLYDEN IN JAIL

May 3, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Following allegations that the Publisher of Awareness Times newspaper, Dr. Sylvia Blyden, was arrested because of her critical and controversial publications and postings on social media, we visited the […]

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Serious political crisis brewing in Sierra Leone

May 2, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The political fallout between Sierra Leone’s ruling SLPP and the main opposition APC over the killing of eleven prisoners, with dozens more injured, has begun. It started yesterday when the chairlady […]

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GENDER RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CALL FOR THE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF DR SYLVIA OLAYINKA BLYDEN

May 2, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  GENDER RIGHTS ACTIVISTS The above name Civil Society received a disturbing News on Friday 1st May 2020 that Dr Olayinka Sylvia Blyden was arrested at her Cockle Bay Residence. […]

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United Nations remind Bio Government about commitment to respect human rights

May 2, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Statement of the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Sierra Leone Freetown, 1 May 2020. The United Nations in Sierra Leone expresses serious concern over the violent incidents, which […]

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*The Attempted Prison Break That Was Never Attempted*

May 1, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  *By Mohamed Moinina Kpakra* About a fortnight ago, I read a piece on social media authored by one Sheku Maada Makasuba about how the current President Julius Maada Bio, […]

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Diaspora Focus Group wants Maada Bio indicted by the ICC

May 1, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

DIASPORA FOCUS GROUP UNITED KINGDOM Contact: 07405653736 wuriefinancialtimes@gmail.com Dated: 1st May 2020 PRESS RELEASE CALLING ON THE ICC TO INDICT PRESIDENT JULIUS MAADA BIO AND HIS GOVERNMENT FOR MASS KILLINGS/WAR […]

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Sylvia Blyden arrested by SLPP Maada Bio’s Government

May 1, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The unending political psychdrama in Sierra Leone since this President Maada Bio-led SierCockle ra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP ) government came to power two years ago continued this morning […]

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Lunsar is burning

May 1, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Lunsar on Fire!!! The Lunsar police station, the residence of the Local Unit Commander and the house of the Paramount Chief have all been burned to ground by angry youths […]

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