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Cocorioko was right: President Biden uses U.S/ Africa Summit to caution against rigging next year’s elections

December 15, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Cocorioko was right : U.S .President Biden cautions African leaders against rigging forthcoming elections By Kabs Kanu WE SAID IT, but our detractors and the ruling SLPP thought we were […]

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What President Biden said at the US-Africa Business Forum in Washington DC

December 15, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, hello, hello.  (Applause.)  It’s good to see you all.  Please have a seat.  And I know you’re saying to yourselves, “Make it short, Biden.  There’s a…” […]

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Biden Asks African Leaders To Ensure Free 2023 Elections

December 15, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden yesterday met the leaders of African nations that hold elections in the new year to press for a free vote. On the sidelines of a […]

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PUTTING A CART BEFORE A HORSE

December 13, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By: Winstanley. R. Bankole. Johnson If it was only last Wednesday 8th December that Mr. Adrian Fischer was “approved and confirmed” by Parliament as a High Court Judge, then I feel […]

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As ECOWAS Parliament raises concerns about rigging, fact-minding ECOWAS mission comes to Sierra Leone

December 12, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

An ECOWAS -cum UN fact-finding team has arrived in Freetown to investigate the political situation and structures the SLPP Government is putting in place to rig next year’s elections. Mr. […]

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Sparks fly, and the ECOWAS Parliament firestorm portends very bad news for President Maada Bio and SLPP

December 12, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU SPARKS flew in the ECOWAS Parliament last week as honorable members took time to expose and express grave concerns about subterranean attempts by President Maada Bio to […]

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Parliament rejects the annulment of the PR and District Block System of representation

December 12, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Members of Parliament on Thursday 08/12/2022 rejected a private member’s motion proposed by Hon. Musa Fofana and seconded by Hon. Brima Mansaray to annul two statutory instruments regarding the Proportional […]

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Hired Surveillance: Sierra Leone officials pay cyber intel groups to target journalists, political opponents

December 12, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Matthew Anderson, Nik Harris, and Mark Feldman An investigation by Africanist Press has uncovered that Sierra Leonean officials paid at least US$5 million to cyber intelligence groups, including the Israeli-based Cognyte […]

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Sierra Leone: President’s diplomats unable to account for over US$4.6 million transferred in 2019 to New York for Chancery Building construction

December 12, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman In this report, Africanist Press provided transaction details from bank statements of Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs showing how funds transferred […]

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Maada Bio must go in 2023 so that the sweet breeze of freedom and national development will blow over our nation once again

December 12, 2022 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

MAADA BIO MUST GO IN 2023 SO THAT THE SWEET BREEZE OF FREEDOM AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WILL BLOW OVER OUR NATION ONCE AGAIN By Kabs Kanu The scathing denunciation of […]

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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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  • 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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UPDATE!!! Uneasy Calm Returns to Central Freetown After Ojeh-Linked Tensions

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WHEN WILL THE SLPP EVER LEARN FROM HER MISTAKES AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR FAILURE ?

December 20, 2012 0

It seem as if the oldest party in our political history, the SLPP will never learn from her mistakes and take great responsibility for her failures, thus posing a sober […]

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By State House Communication Unit On Wednesday March 22nd 2017, the Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development signed a loan agreement with the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) in Freetown […]

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Honourable Sylvia Blyden Allays Concerns of Muslims – say Imams & Missionaries

July 4, 2016 0

President of Sierra Leone Muslim Missionaries Union (SLMMU) and founder of Voice of Islam Radio (102.5fm), Sheikh M.A. Zaki Kallon has on Saturday 25th June, 2016 expressed that the country’s […]

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Allegations of Police brutality affects community policing

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  By SLP Media & Communications Unit   Whenever it is said that Sierra Leone is a progressive democracy, it reflects the ongoing processes of establishing potent and robust institutions […]

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President Julius Maada Bio cannot and must not be allowed to remain in office

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