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  • [ May 2, 2025 ] UPDATE!!! Uneasy Calm Returns to Central Freetown After Ojeh-Linked Tensions ACTION NEWS
  • [ May 1, 2025 ] Guinea expands illegal occupation of Yenga, opens fire on residents and forces everybody to flee ACTION NEWS
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Images of President Maada Bio—What Sierra Leoneans think of him (In jest)

May 27, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

PRESIDENT MAADA BIO  is the most ridiculed Sierra Leonean head of state ever in the history of the country. Not a day passes without the president being cartooned in the […]

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Cotton Tree is no more : Historical landmark brought down by heavy windstorm

May 25, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Kabs Kanu The historic and iconic Cotton Tree , which for hundreds of years towered majestically at the center of Freetown ( The capital of Sierra Leone ) as […]

ACTION NEWS

President Bio launches SLPP manifesto for June 24 Elections

May 24, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has launched his party’s manifesto for the forthcoming June 24 elections from which he is seeking re-election. “Today, I launched the Sierra Leone People’s […]

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Citizen takes Maada Bio government to task for substandard voters ID cards and failure to publish list of voters

May 24, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

ELECTIONS COMMISSIONER MOHAMED KONNEH  

ACTION NEWS

SLPP unleashes thuggery on APC at Mile 91

May 24, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

*SLPP starts Thuggery In Mile 91* Today, the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) members including Paramount Chief Shebora Thelle II of Yoni Chiefdom, Regent Chief one Attatie are unleashing […]

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European Union launches elections observation mission in Sierra Leone

May 24, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
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SLPP THUGS WAGE WAR ON APC , AS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF IN SIERRA LEONE

May 23, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

There are very disturbing reports and photos of thuggery by supporters of President Maada Bio, who today attacked opposition members campaigning for their party at Sierra Rutile and left the […]

ACTION NEWS

National Security Coordinator assures EU that security Sector adequately prepared for elections

May 23, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

*”The Security Sector is fully and adequately prepared to conduct the upcoming multi-tier elections”…* The NSCoord assures the EU. *22nd May, 2023 – ONS Hq, Tower Hill Freetown.* The National […]

ACTION NEWS

Man beaten up in Makeni for recording video of President Bio’s convoy

May 23, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

As President Maada Bio’s convoy passed through Makeni, heading for Koinadugu where his political party has been campaigning recently, a man stood on the sidewalk innocently videotaping it with a […]

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Prices of basic necessities and food have gone through the roof in Sierra Leone under the shambolic leadership of President Maada Bio

May 23, 2023 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

PRICES OF BASIC COMMODITIES AND FOOD HAVE GONE INSANE IN SIERRA LEONE : HOW DOES PRESIDENT BIO EXPECT PEOPLE TO EAT AND HOW DOES HE HOPE TO WIN ON JUNE […]

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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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Sierra Leone Parliament ratifies State of Public Emergency

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Freetown, 7th August, 2014 – The House of Parliament has today ratified the State of Public Emergency throughout Sierra Leone as declared by H E the President and published in the Sierra […]

Obituary

Idriss Sankoh Of Woodbridge, Virginia Has Passed

December 20, 2012 0

By Jacob Conteh :  The Sankoh Family of Woodbridge, Virginia and in Sierra Leone sadly announced the passing of their father, brother, uncle, cousin and nephew, Mr. Idriss Kamara on […]

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Sierra Leone’s Foreign Minister Samura Kamara poised to boost nation’s pride

May 18, 2015 0

  By Umaru S. Jah — Information Attaché, Germany : The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Samura Kamara has expressed confidence that the country will soon be […]

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GANG RAPE AND MURDER IN SIERRA LEONE : A Statement by Mrs Zainab Hawa Bangura.

August 21, 2015 0

  The civil war in Sierra Leone during which we witnessed so much abuse and violence against women, ended almost 13 years ago. At the end of the war, the […]

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Nigerian High Commissioner to Sierra Leone pays courtesy call to the Minister of Political and Public Affairs.

June 15, 2016 0

The Nigerian High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Her Excellency Mrs. Gladys Modupeola Quist-Adebiyivi today paid a courtesy call to the Minister of Political and Public Affairs at her 9th Floor […]

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