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INSIGHT: Family: A crucial pillar in nation-building

October 23, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Amara Thoronka The family is considered by sociologists as a powerful agent of socialisation – the process through which a person learns about the norms, principles and realities of […]

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*PADEMBA ROAD PRISONS must be relocated away from the Capital!*

October 23, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Rodney Michael *PADEMBA ROAD PRISONS must be relocated away from the Capital!* A few months ago, residents of Freetown experienced their own attempt of what the authorities described as […]

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99 Migrants Repatriated From Niger to Sierra Leone

October 23, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

*Sierra Leone Airports Authority provides seamless Facilitation*On Thursday 15th October, 2020, 99 repatriated Sierra Leoneans from Niger arrived at the Freetown International Airport onboard the Smartwing Airlines. The successful repatriation […]

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“Sustainable peace and reconciliation are built on the stabilizing pillar of justice” : Prosecutor of International Criminal Court

October 22, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

PRESS RELEASE Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, at a media briefing in Khartoum, Sudan: “There is an urgent need for justice in Sudan; sustainable […]

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Speaker of Parliament suspends MPs

October 22, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Mohamed Amara Gando The Hon. Speaker of Sierra Leone Parliament Dr. Abass Chernor Bundu 20 October suspended two members of parliament; Hon. Hindolo Mowoi Gevao and Ibrahim Tawa Conteh. […]

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APC Legal Communications Team Explains the Issue at Appeals Court with APC MPs Elections Petitions.*

October 22, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

APC Legal Communications Team Explains the Issue at Appeals Court with APC MPs Elections Petitions.* By APC Legal Communications. Lawyers representing the APC Members of Parliament that were removed from […]

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ECOWAS: Africa’s New Coup Leaders on The Block.

October 21, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

ECOWAS: Africa’s New Coup Leaders on The Block. Last Sunday’s polling day in the Republic of Guinea has passed with relative calm, but it is the coming 72 hours that […]

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*Sackings/Resignations at SLBC should be investigated- House Main Opposition Leader Calls

October 21, 2020 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Sheriff Cole Outraged with concern by the systemic pattern of sackings and resignations at Sierra Leone’s only national broadcaster, Sierra Leone Broadcasting Cooperation (SLBC), House’s main opposition leader had […]

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Where did we fail as a nation ? Sierra Leone used to feed herself and even export rice to West African countries

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

By KABS KANU Today, Sierra Leone is considered a poverty-stricken country that depends on handouts to survive . Successive governments have to spend millions of dollars a year to import […]

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Sierra Leoneans anxiously following Guinea’s tense elections with mixed motives

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

By KABS KANU Sierra Leoneans are keenly following the tense elections in Guinea with mixed emotions, ollowing President Alpha Conde’s accusation of unwarranted interference into his country’s internal affairs by […]

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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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*GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE, KOIDU LIMITED, KOIDU LIMITED WORKERS, ACTIVISTS AND THE COMUNITY IN A STALEMATE OVER BETTER WAGES AND GOOD WORKING  CONDITIONS IN KONO*   By Karamoh Kabba A […]

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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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UNICEF Supports Landslide & Flood Response in Key areas of Humanitarian Response

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UNICEF Supports Landslide & Flood Response in Key areas of Humanitarian Response  Photos can be accessed here and here. FREETOWN, 6 September 2017 – As a long term partner of Sierra Leone, UNICEF […]

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APC loses a strongman in Kono

October 15, 2014 0

The ruling All People’s Congress (APC ) yesterday lost one of its strongmen in Kono. Mr. Khalil Ali, popularly known as Ali Baylay Baylay of Old Yengema Road, Koidu,  passed […]

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Stop using President Koroma’s name to threaten and intimidate others ! ! !

December 15, 2010 0

Published on December 15, 2010 by Cocorioko News   ·   No Comments BY KABS KANU : The problem Sierra Leoneans have started having in this part of the United States  is […]

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Another Batch of 54 Survivors Discharged at Hastings Treatment Centre

November 18, 2014 0

Freetown, Nov. 17, 014 (MOHS) – Fifty-Four (54) Survivors of the Ebola virus disease have been discharged on Saturday November 15, 2014 from the Hastings Ebola Treatment Centre. A cross […]

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Binta Mansaray appointed Registrar

October 1, 2014 0

The Secretary-General of the United Nations has appointed Binta Mansaray as Registrar of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone. Ms. Mansaray made her Solemn Declaration before RSCSL President Justice […]

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