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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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 – Saturday 14 June 2008.   Sierra Leone received another accolade in the area of democracy and political tolerance when on Thursday 12 June President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma launched the […]

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