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Sierra Leone : A shameful country with a compromised opposition , media, civil society , judiciary, Parliament , religious council and intelligentsia

May 13, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

By Kabs Kanu President Maada Bio and his wife, Fatima Bio , are getting away with everything in Sierra Leone. The couple and the  ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party ( […]

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Bio family scandals: Useless opposition and accountablity institutions hand foreign outlets the initiative to expose President and wife

May 13, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

President Julius Maada Bio’s regime, unopposed by a weak and feeble opposition, unhindered by a compromised Anti-Corruption Commission, unchecked by a largely self-censored media, surrounded and propped up by sycophants […]

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VIDEO : How did Sierra Leone’s First Lady come about all this unexplained wealth ?

May 13, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

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US’s Cut to UNFPA Funding Risks Lives of Women and Adolescent Girls

May 13, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

US’s Cut to UNFPA Funding Risks Lives of Women and Adolescent Girls John Baimba Sesay As hope awakens with the first light of dawn, a woman’s life becomes the true […]

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VIDEO : Where did First Lady Fatima Bio get the money to buy and build all these estates and hotel in the Gambia ?

May 13, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0
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Tensions Rise at Sierra Leone–Guinea Border as Military Buildup Continues in Yenga

May 12, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

By Franklyn Amoah Kemokai Tensions Rise at Sierra Leone–Guinea Border as Military Buildup Continues in Yenga Tensions are escalating along the border between Sierra Leone and Guinea over a disputed […]

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Inside the vulgar riches, deluxe estates and posh hotels of Fatima Bio- Sierra Leone’s First Lady , a former Nollywood film star who once lived in a London council flat

May 11, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

   

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British newspaper reports explosive story of Maada and Fatima Bio’s grand scale corruption and posh estates and marquee hotels

May 11, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

  Sierra Leone’s first lady rents a council flat in south London As 336,000 households wait for accommodation in the capital, Fatima Jabbe-Bio retains tenancy of her old home in […]

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Africa, and 50 shades of democracy to make Africa great again

May 10, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

Africa and the Fifty Shades of Democracy to Make Africa Great Again. Donald Trump and Ibrahim Traore are two leaders who could be best described as “Strange Bedfellows”. Despite being […]

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Yenga : Brotherhood abandoned at the border

May 10, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

Sierra Leone : The betrayal of Yenga By John Baimba Sesay I have written a few opinions on Yenga. But in January 2021, I wrote about why diplomacy should remain […]

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  • BOOK : MAADA BIO IN POWER : A country mired in agony
  • Alpha Sesay, constitutional reform and the difference between paper and power
  • Sierra Leone Labour Congress warns President Bio against assent to controversial constitutional amendments
  • How can we have peace in Sierra Leone when the President himself does not want peace ?
  • Speaker of Parliament lectured on law by citizens: A court of law can overrule a speaker’s decision
  • Opposition APC distances itself from the controversial constitutional amendments by SLPP-controlled Parliament
  • Timothy Kabba is out : Mohamed Rado Swaray is now Foreign Minister as President Bio reshuffles his cabinet
  • *The 2028 Election May Have Already Begun*
  • Sierra Leone cannot afford another democratic collapse and war, but Maada Bio is driving us rapidly back into it
  • Sierra Leone’s constitutional faultline: A walkout, a two-thirds dispute and the stakes for 2028
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Full statement delivered by Foreign Minister Samura Kamara on behalf of Africa at UN Security Council Reform Intergovernmental Negotiations

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Sierra Leone’s Foreign Minister , Dr.  Samura Kamara, yesterday  addressed  the UN Security Council Reform intergovernmental negotiations as the African Union turns on the heat in her quest to gain […]

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  By State House Communication Unit President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma this morning Thursday 21 December made a stop on his ‘Thank you tour’ in Blama, Small Bo chiefdom in […]

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Does the BBC Screen the reporters they hire in Sierra Leone ? Part 5 : How one booze-addicted reporter helped the cause of the rebels and deliberately endangered the lives of people

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Sierra Leone Government puts measures in place to fight Ebola

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  SIERRA LEONE GOVERNMENT  (Office of Government Spokesman) Ministry of Information and Communications 8th Floor, Youyi Building,  Brookfields, Freetown PRESS RELEASE FREETOWN, JUNE 11, 2014 As Government and its health development […]

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