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June 5, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The following statement has been removed and a disclaimer is hereby published . Though the writer is a member of Amnesty International Australia,  the procedures were not followed .At the […]

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PETITION : Free Professor Sheik Umarr Kamara now

June 5, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Petition to free #FreeSheikhUmarrKamarah My father has been detained in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We have not been made aware of the charges he is facing and we don’t know where […]

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Sylvia Blyden says she was subjected to terrorism by terrorists

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

Our heroic son of the soil, Master Hussain Muckson Sesay, is finally out this Monday morning. On me being set free last Friday, I had stayed silent out of respect […]

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Witness Tells Court that Palo Conteh Willingly Handed Over Pistol himself

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

By Idrissa Salaam Conteh *Under thunderous cross examination by Defense team for Palo, the treason trial case takes another u-turn⛓ Under cross examination by Ady Macauley Esq., and through the […]

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COVID-19’s COMPANION: INSIDIOUS BLACK GENOCIDE IN AMERICAN STREETS

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

By Professor Cecil Blake Covid-19 has taken the lives of descendants of Africa in Diaspora in terribly disproportionate numbers since it was declared a pandemic. This piece, however, is not […]

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Sierra Leone Paolo’s case : Defense team scored an early goal

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

By Alpha Kamara The Exhibit Clerk attached at the CID HQ Nat Williams allegedly tendered the wrong pistol (Gluck 17) with registration # EFEF 240 with ten rounds of ammunition […]

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Over five hundred passengers stranded at Kissy Terminal

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

  Over five hundred passengers were stranded today at the Kissy Terminal here in Freetown. They could not access a ferry to take them to Lungi. Recently, ferries have been plying […]

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Late Disbursement of Government Grant Weakens Activity Plans of Local Councils

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

  By Hassan Bruz Northern Bureau Chief It is close to or a little over a decade when the development of Communities was shifted to Local or City Councils as […]

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Workplace injustice in Sierra Leone: Unlawful dismissals at the Bank of Sierra Leone

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

  By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman In March of this year, Africanist Press published three articles in our Sierra Leone investigation series, which highlighted the […]

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Something is Deeply Wrong in the American Psyche.

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

Something is Deeply Wrong in the American Psyche. This writer is an 80 year-old ex-pat, fiercely proud of his Irish-American Wild Geese heritage that, for centuries, has defied the White, […]

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  • Sierra Leone’s constitutional faultline: A walkout, a two-thirds dispute and the stakes for 2028
  • Another sad day for democracy in Sierra Leone, as SLPP passes constitutional amendments without 2/3rd majority parliamentary vote
  • BREAKING NEWS: APC walk out of Parliament , after Speaker rejects 2/3rd constitutional threshold for amendment of constitution
  • EDITORIAL : The world is looking up to the APC MPs to vote in the national interest today
  • Maada Bio will go but the harm caused by dictators last for generations
  • A CITIZEN’S REBUTTAL : Former SLPP UK Secretary General responds to President Bio ‘s miscues in Parliament
  • Sierra Leone’s Constitutional Amendment: Why We Should Not Put the Cart Before the Horse
  • Sylvia Blyden warns Sierra Leone in nation-wide broadcast : SLPP will never lose grip on State House , if constitutional amendments enacted
  • APC’S full position statement on the constitutional amendments going to vote in Parliament
  • APC stalwart Unisa Thorlu Conteh celebrates birthday today
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