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Ask not what Gyude Bryant can do for Liberia but what Liberians can do for Liberia to redeem the nation –A call to patriotic citizenry in Liberia

October 17, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

    –A CALL TO PATRIOTIC CITIZENRY IN LIBERIA Friday October 17, 2003 By Rev.Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu, Esq, Former Instructor of Educational Psychology MOE/University of Liberia World Bank In-Service Teacher-Training Program, […]

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PRESIDENT KABBAH, THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

October 12, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  PRESIDENT KABBAH, THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS PLAYING HARDBALL WITH KABS KANU, Esq Sunday October 12, 2003 When in 1995 the one -time UN […]

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HINGA NORMAN : A LIFE TIME OF POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES … and life on a knife’s edge………

September 16, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  HINGA NORMAN : A PLAQUE OF INFAMY OR HEROISM ?  Wilfred Kabs- Kanu looks at a  jolly man whose political lifestyle has embodied controversy so far…..   The name […]

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Ex-President Joseph Momoh : A PROMISING LIFE HIGHJACKED BY PSEUDO-POLITICS

August 3, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Sunday August 3, 2003 Ex-President Joseph Saidu Momoh, who died in Conakry, Guinea today of complications from hypertension, was one of the most promising Sierra Leoneans at Independence in […]

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The lessons of Foday Sankoh’s demise

July 30, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sankoh became an eyesore before he died   The lesson to be learned from the death on Tuesday of Sierra Leone’s voluptuosly-greedy and power -conscious rebel leader, Foday Sankoh, is […]

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Mother -of- all -trials

April 6, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By  Rev. Alfred SamForay  : This week, the Appeals Chamber of the so-called Special Court for Sierra Leone will handle two hot potatoes on its plate: The fate of […]

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CAN THE SPECIAL COURT REALLY DELIVER JUSTICE ? A REJOINDER

March 13, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

CHIEF HINGA NORMAN By a concerned citizen  One would  have thought  that an international tribunal like the Sierra Leone Special Court should have been given the necessary authority and international […]

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SIERRA LEONE IS NO LONGER ANYBODY’S FIEFDOM

March 2, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

EDITORIAL   Thanks to the intervention into our internal affairs by the international community, Sierra Leone is no longer the personal fiefdom of any one person, group of persons, tribe, […]

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THE CRY FOR JUSTICE IN SIERRA LEONE

March 2, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU : The Special Court, which started its sittings in Sierra Leone , has generated some misunderstanding , that should not be the case.   The fact that there […]

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APC has accepted change as a political reality -Ernest Bai Koroma

September 28, 2002 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU Opposition leader, Mr.Ernest Bai Koroma, said today that his party has accepted change as a political reality and the APC was now on the verge of re-inventing […]

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  • Former President Ernest Koroma arrives in Sierra Leone to attend ECOWAS Summit
  • When the Law Ends, but the Constitution Still Speaks
  • The Return Of A Statesman: Ernest Koroma’s homecoming and a new chapter of hope
  • When Weapons Cannot Save a State: Mali’s Warning for Sierra Leone and West Africa
  • Opinion: The Ernest Bai Koroma Treason Case Raises Difficult Questions About Justice in Sierra Leone
  • President Bio, Ernest Bai Koroma, and Sierra Leone’s Search for Peace and Justice
  • Statement by Ex- President Ernest Koroma on dropping of treason charges against him
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WHEN CIVIL SOCIETY AND OTHER NON-GOVERNENTAL ORGANIZATIONS REFUSE TO SEE ISSUES IN THEIR ROUNDNESS, THEY FORFEIT THE OPPORTUNITY TO INFLUENCE GOVERNMENT DECISION/POLICY- A REJOINDER TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Sierra Leone – […]

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