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Encouraging signs from erstwhile Heart of Darkness

April 20, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

EDITORIAL Encouraging signs from erstwhile Heart of Darkness Tuesday April 11, 2006 When one takes his mind back to the political dynamics in Sierra Leone three decades back, one cannot help […]

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A loud and clear warning to politricians

April 12, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  A LOUD & CLEAR WARNING TO POLITRICIANS STATEMENT BY JOHN LEIGH re 2004 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS The local government elections just concluded appear to many thoughtful observers to be […]

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Hinga Norman’s accounts frozen

March 29, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Monday March 29, 2004 The original order to freeze the assets of Sam Hinga Norman was contained within the arrest warrant of 7 March 2003,  as follows: “To identify and […]

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SIERRA LEONE HIGH COMMISSION PRESS RELEASE : Government accepts offer of settlement for chancery building

March 16, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

SIERRA LEONE HIGH COMMISSION PRESS RELEASE Subj:  33 Portland Place Judgement Date: 3/16/04 3:59:32 AM Dateline Standard Time PRESS RELEASE  It will be recalled that in 2000 the Government of Sierra […]

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SLPP -UK Problems remain unsolved

March 12, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Sierra Leone People’s Party UK /Ireland Branch did not solve its problems after all, COCORIOKO  can authoritatively report. We have received three letters from contending parties which gave clear […]

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Press Release From The Hinga Norman Defence Committee

March 10, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Hinga Norman BE IT KNOWN TO ALL THAT we have received with disbelief news of the arrest of people peacefully demonstrating today 10th March 2004 in Freetown in support of […]

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APC BACK FROM THE DEAD AS A CREDIBLE FORCE

March 3, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BY KABS KANU :  They were written off as dead and buried .They were castigated as the one party that no Sierra Leonean will take seriously any more.The opportunistic, thieving […]

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*Chukuma Johnson heads APC

February 9, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The All People’s Congress (APC) in connection with the Supreme Court ruling has in a press release stated that the Hon. Chukuma Johnson is now the party’s chairman and leader. […]

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Chief Hinga Norman and CDF officials indicted

February 4, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

THE SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE CASE NO. SCSL – 03 – 14 – I THE PROSECUTOR Against SAMUEL HINGA NORMAN MOININA FOFANA ALLIEU KONDEWA INDICTMENT The Prosecutor, Special Court […]

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APC-NA Chairman leaves for Freetown to help sensitize people for 2007 elections

January 9, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  The Chairman of the All People’s Congress ( APC) North American Chapter, Mr. Alimamy G. Kargbo, leaves the United States next week for Freetown , to join the sensitization program […]

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  • 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
  • Another sad day for democracy in Sierra Leone, as SLPP passes constitutional amendments without 2/3rd majority parliamentary vote
  • BREAKING NEWS: APC walk out of Parliament , after Speaker rejects 2/3rd constitutional threshold for amendment of constitution
  • EDITORIAL : The world is looking up to the APC MPs to vote in the national interest today
  • Maada Bio will go but the harm caused by dictators last for generations
  • A CITIZEN’S REBUTTAL : Former SLPP UK Secretary General responds to President Bio ‘s miscues in Parliament
  • Sierra Leone’s Constitutional Amendment: Why We Should Not Put the Cart Before the Horse
  • Sylvia Blyden warns Sierra Leone in nation-wide broadcast : SLPP will never lose grip on State House , if constitutional amendments enacted
  • APC’S full position statement on the constitutional amendments going to vote in Parliament
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By KABS KANU : Since the Sierra Leone Government announced early this month that the country has slipped into an economic slowdown, critics of the government have jumped on the […]

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  By  M. Alieu Iscandari Esq on September 20, 2005  Now folks the 2007 campaign between Ernest Koroma and Solomon Berewah is going to be a campaign about who has […]

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