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Disaster-prone Freetown lashed by heavy torrential rains, flooding and mudslide: 6 reported dead

August 29, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Kabs Kanu Sierra Leone’s disaster-prone capital city, Freetown ,  was  at the centre of another massive tragedy yesterday when heavy and unrelenting torrential rains , which had been flooding […]

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Sierra Leone: New evidence shows government’s ongoing efforts to silence Africanist Press

August 28, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone: New evidence shows government’s ongoing efforts to silence Africanist Press  PUBLISHED DATE:AUGUST 24, 2022 By Anne Baber Wallis, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman  Leaked documents from the Office […]

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SLPP is holding 506 people in jail for August 10 demonstrations : 133 released ,Police announces

August 25, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

SLP update the Media on recent developments Police Headquarters, George Street Freetown, Thursday 25 August, 2022 In it usual strides to keep the public abreast on it operations, the Sierra […]

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A peep through history : Seally Thompson , Prince Johnson and the death of President Samuel K. Doe

August 25, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

A PEEP THROUGH THE PAGES OF HISTORY. By Archie Williams SEALLY THOMPSON, PRINCE JOHNSON AND THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT SAMUEL K. DOE. SEPTEMBER 9, 1990 32 YEARS AGO IN TIME! […]

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UK-based legal practitioner warns SLPP Government on Special Investigations Commission

August 25, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Brian Johnson, Legal Practitioner, UK By all accounts, the protest of 10th August 2022 is the most violent and deadliest Sierra Leone has recorded in its history. Therefore, it […]

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Obituary : Lucilda Hunter

August 25, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Obituary – Lucilda Hunter Renown Sierra Leonean librarian, novelist and biographer who wrote under the name Yema Lucilda Hunter died suddenly early Sunday morning 21 August at her home in […]

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Pursued by Politically Motivated Youths… Alpha Sheriff and Family on the Run

August 25, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Pursued by Politically Motivated Youths… Alpha Sheriff and Family on the Run August 25, 2022 Alpha Sheriff, popularly known as “APC Sheriff” By Millicent Senava Mannah It is indeed sad […]

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Sierra Leone Special investigation committee to probe recent unrest

August 24, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

FREETOWN, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) — The government of Sierra Leone on Wednesday established a special investigation committee to fully probe into the recent unrest that led to the killings of […]

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Answer President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah’s Call: “Never again shall we resort to violence to settle matters of political importance”

August 22, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Answer President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah’s Call: “Never again shall we resort to violence to settle matters of political importance” August 11, 2022   Mohamed Sorie Forna and fourteen others were […]

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Is Liberia’s President George Weah not cognisant of the danger President Bio poses to peace and security in West Africa ?

August 18, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

According to the Liberian News Agency ( LINA ), “Former Peace Ambassador and President of Liberia, Dr. George Manneh Weah, has called on the Economic Community of West African States […]

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  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The Truth Teller We Never Deserved
  • 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.
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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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Subject: Final message to my countrymen, before 8.9. 2007 From: Cornelius Hamelberg To: All Date Posted: 12:16:39 09/07/07 () Email Address: Entered From: c-081271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.8 Message: Last message to all my countrymen, before the […]

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