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  • [ May 7, 2025 ] Karamoh Kabba reports : Government and Koidu Holdings in stalemate and workers dismissed ACTION NEWS
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  • [ May 1, 2025 ] Guinea expands illegal occupation of Yenga, opens fire on residents and forces everybody to flee ACTION NEWS
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Sierra Leone : Cocaine cartels and the rise of state capture

February 20, 2025 cocorioko 0

SIERRA LEONE: COCAINE CARTELS AND THE RISE OF STATE CAPTURE By Abdoul Mahdieu Savage Sierra Leone has come under renewed scrutiny as a key transit hub for international drug trafficking. […]

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Burkina Faso: The Machiavellian Threat to African Leaders.

February 15, 2025 cocorioko 0

Burkina Faso: The Machiavellian Threat to African Leaders. Captain Ibrahim Traore took power in Burkina Faso on 30th September 2022, citing former President Paul Henri-Damiba’s inability to deal with the […]

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Sierra Leone Lawyers’ Society concerned about matters involving Hawa Hunt and the Dutch Journalist in Sierra Leone

February 14, 2025 cocorioko 0

LAWYERS ‘ SOCIETY OF SIERRA LEONE The Lawyers’ Society is monitoring the case by the State against Hawa Hunt “the reality TV star” for alleged cyber-related offences. While we would […]

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Sierra Leone / Netherlands standoff for druglord deepens as Dutch journalist is arrested in Freetown

February 14, 2025 cocorioko 0

There is another dramatic twist in the standoff between Sierra Leone and the Netherlands over the matter of the convicted cocaine overlord found to be hiding in Sierra Leone, whom […]

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Going to Liberia to attend Armed Forces Day ? President Maada Bio is just idle and unserious

February 11, 2025 cocorioko 0

PRESIDENT BIO IS JUST VERY IDLE AND UNSERIOUS By Kabs Kanu President Julius Maada Bio is the most idle and unserious President I have ever known . How can a […]

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US foreign aid freeze sends shock waves across Africa, Asia

February 11, 2025 cocorioko 0

US foreign aid freeze sends shock waves across Africa, Asia Peter Hille The US is the world’s most important donor of development aid, and the repercussions of Donald Trump’s recent […]

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Echo of the Pen : Those embarrassing President Maada Bio

February 10, 2025 cocorioko 0

Echo of the Pen! By: Lansana Fofanah [email protected] *Those Embarrassing The President* Bringing young folks into government is another way to build a prosperous and promising future for a nation. […]

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The Perils of being a journalist in Sierra Leone and the world

February 9, 2025 cocorioko 0

THE PERILS OF BEING A JOURNALIST By Kabs Kanu Journalism is the most perilous and dangerous job in the world. You have to love the profession to even think of […]

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NOSTALGIA: The missing element in Sierra Leone Journalism today : Bitter, biting and educative debates on burning national issues

February 9, 2025 cocorioko 0

NOSTALGIA: THE MISSING ELEMENT By Kabs Kanu At the time that some of us started having sense of the world, Sierra Leone had a very vibrant, dynamic, lively, censorious, analytical […]

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Maada Bio wants to turn Sierra Leone into a de facto one – party state : When will APC start behaving like an opposition party ?

February 9, 2025 cocorioko 0

MAADA BIO WANTS TO TURN SIERRA LEONE INTO A DE FACTO ONE -PARTY STATE : WILL APC SIT BACK AND ALLOW HIM OR WILL THEY START FUNCTIONING AS AN OPPOSITION […]

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  • 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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Karamoh Kabba reports : Government and Koidu Holdings in stalemate and workers dismissed

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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 : *10 practical lessons from “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. (A great Classic fable)*

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*10 practical lessons from “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. (A great Classic fable)* 1. Beware of False Leaders: The pigs in the story start as advocates for equality but gradually […]

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BREAKING NEWS!!! Police, claiming to be acting  with orders from above,  just stormed the Freetown compound of former Vice President and leader of the Coalition for Change (C4C) Party Alhaji […]

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Minister Madina Rahman Heads for China ahead of Ministerial Strategic Dialogue on South-South Cooperation for Population and Development

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  Sierra Leone’s Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation 1, Madam Madina Rahman will on Thursday 17th March, 2016, arrive in Beijing, China’s capital, for the Ministerial Strategic Dialogue on […]

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President Koroma storms Boston and calls on Sierra Leoneans to return home and take advantage of new possibilities

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September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Breaking News,Diaspora,Headlines,Lead Story,Talking Point | Posted by: Cocorioko News By KABS KANU : After a very successful one-day visit to New Jersey where he […]

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*Development Partners are ‘pleased with the successes and progress’ of the President’s Recovery Priorities*

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  By Memuna Forna Saidu Conton-Sesay, the Chief of Staff, welcomed development partners to State House on Friday 12 August 2016 to update them on the progress of the President’s […]

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