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Have military coups bounced back in Africa ?

August 20, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Abdulai Mansaray The President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was seized and detained with his Prime Minister Boubou Cisse by the military yesterday. Initial reports indicate that what started […]

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PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF MALI ARRESTED , AND THE PEOPLE POUR OUT INTO THE STREETS TO CELEBRATE A COUP IN AFRICA FOR ONCE AGAIN

August 19, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT ARRESTED , AND THE PEOPLE POUR OUT INTO THE STREETS TO CELEBRATE Cocorioko Reports Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been arrested. President Keita was arrested today […]

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Emmerson Bockarie, the rapper, stirs the hornet’s nest in Sierra Leone with new song that destroys the SLPP Government

August 19, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

COCORIOKO REPORTS Sierra Leone’s most celebrated musical artist and rapper, EMMERSON BOCKARIE , has stirred the hornet’s nest once again. He has produced a new song that demonizes the ruling […]

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President Bio murders the Attitudinal and Behavioral Change program

August 19, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Worth discussing now – the ABC Secretariat that has been either murdered or repressed by the SLPP government of Retired Brigadier Maada Bio. The ABC Secretariat was one of the […]

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THE GOVERNMENT, THE FORCES AND THE LAW IN BIO’S SIERRA LEONE

August 19, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Karamoh Kabbakkaramoh@gmail.com The World International Security and Police Index (WISPI) report ranked Sierra Leone Police (SLP) amongst five (5) worst security forces in the world out of 127 countries […]

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In Sierra Leone, women fight to be equal with men .

August 19, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Priscilla Schwartz, a Sierra Leonean lawyer is the first woman to serve as Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Sierra Leone. Her appointment was greeted as a statement of intent by many; that Bio’s […]

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Black lives matter in the context of the African struggle

August 19, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Black lives matter in the context of the African struggle Ayesha Rahim-Kamara, UK The future of racism in the west lies in the hands of today’s children who are tomorrow’s […]

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Will Those Who Make Peaceful Evolutions Impossible, Make Violent Revolutions Inevitable?

August 19, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Will Those Who Make Peaceful Evolutions Impossible, Make Violent Revolutions Inevitable? Alpha Conde, the president of Guinea recently received an endorsement from his RPG governing party to run for the […]

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Human Right Commission releases reports on the Makeni riot

August 18, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Human Right Commission releases reports on the Makeni riot, and called for professionalism by the Police in responding to a riotSulaiman Stom Koroma On the 17th and 18th July 2020 […]

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Bishop John Yambasu of Sierra Leone dies in road accident

August 17, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

8/16/2020 – Bishop News By Maidstone Mulenga* Bishop John K. Yambasu, the Resident Bishop of the Sierra Leone Area of The United Methodist Church, died in a road accident this morning (August […]

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  • An idiot’s guide to winning an election
  • The Crumbling House: APC’s Internal Chaos and the Systematic Marginalization of Political Pluralism in Sierra Leone
  • For corruption : Sierra Leone suspended from all IMF programs
  • Sierra Leone will defend herself to the last against Guinea, if necessary– Interior Minister
  • Taking the Mining discourse to another level:  Patriotism Must Be Grounded in Reality:
  • Big losses for Sierra Leone media: Accident claims lives of SLBC camera journalist and female intern
  • The Battle for Hearts and Minds Descends into The Abyss of Moral Politic, Witch-hunt and Gas lighting
  • The Voice Returns: Christiana Kamara Stuns Sierra Leone in Her Triumphant Return with Bormeh.
  • The FBC students union and NUSS used to be very potent institutions fighting for the welfare of Sierra Leoneans, but today……
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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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