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U. S. condemns Burkina Faso Coup
From a U.S. Department of State press release: The United States is deeply concerned about the unfolding events in Burkina Faso. We call for the immediate release of President Kafando, […]
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President Koroma Urges Flood Disaster Team to Sustain Effective Response
By State House Communications Unit President Ernest Bai Koroma has on Thursday September 17, 2015 made a spot check to flood affected communities to get first hand assessment of […]
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Police helping flood victims in Sierra Leone
On 16th September 2015 saw what was described as the worst torrential rain fall to have occurred in Freetown the capital of Sierra Leone. The rains caused heavy flooding, […]
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UN condemns coup in Burkina Faso
17 September 2015 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations human rights chief today spoke out against the coup d’état in Burkina Faso and called for the immediate release […]
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NEWS FLASH : MCC approves $44. 4 million for Sierra Leone Theshold Program
Sierra Leone’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States, H.E. Bockarie Kortu Stevens, has just broken this good news to COCORIOKO. The Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge […]
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President Ernest Koroma visits, consoles and assures flood victims
President Ernest Bai Koroma earlier today met with an “expanded” cabinet to further assess the situation of yesterday’s flooding in Freetown and provided guidelines on the way forward in terms […]
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Sierra Leone Police Chief addresses pertinent issues
The Sierra Leone Police Force continues to play a crucial role in Sierra Leone’s growth trajectory from the perspective of providing national security. In the last couple of years, […]
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UN SRSG urges support for tracing and return of Yazidi girls captured by ISIL
(New York, 17 September 2015) United Nations SpecialRepresentative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict today met in Germany with two girls from the Yazidi community who had […]
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Deforestation: Facts, Causes & Effects
by Alina Bradford, Live Science Contributor Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. An estimated 18 million acres (7.3 million […]
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Cry Freetown, a city pushed to catastrophe
Titus Boye-Thompson Communications Consultant Freetown floods, the rains cry down torrents and the city is left in disarray. The blame game started as soon as news of the […]