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The message from the Sierra Leone ruling class has been clear: Let the people suffer forever

November 20, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

The message from the political class has been clear: Let the people suffer forever. For 61 years, Sierra Leoneans have been forced to survive under governments that simply do not […]

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Open letter to President Maada Bio on his failed FEED SIERRA LEONE empty campaign

November 13, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

By Paunga Abentuous Marnor – Sesay Mr. Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone—this letter comes to you as an agonizing cry and a burning indictment on your catastrophic failure to […]

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Sierra Leone’s Descent into Chaos – A Tale of Governance Failure

November 10, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

By Abass Sesay Sierra Leone’s Descent into Chaos – A Tale of Governance Failure Sierra Leone is in crisis ravaged by corruption, mismanagement, and a blatant disregard for the rule […]

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Greed for money, power and territorial hegemony make Maada Bio deaf to the cries of the people

November 4, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

By Kabs Kanu Retired Brigadier Maada Bio is the most heartless , ruthless, callous , barbarous, wanton , unremorseful , malevolent , shameless and serpentine President in Africa today . […]

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Maada Bio and the international community : The diplomacy of Self- preservation

October 12, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

MAADA BIO AND INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY————- BIO CAME TO POWER THROUGH INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACIES AND HE REMAINS IN POWER THROUGH DIPLOMATIC CHICANERY By Kabs Kanu Maada Bio lost the plot at home […]

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Preventive diplomacy required in Sierra Leone to keep nation from slipping back to chaos

October 12, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

  By Kabs Kanu Everybody wants peace in Sierra Leone. Nobody wants chaos and instability . Though I admire radical and revolutionary leaders of the past like Jerry Rawlings and […]

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Drugs Are Stealing Our Future — We Must Rise Now

October 11, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

Drugs Are Stealing Our Future — We Must Rise Now By Zainab Tunkara Clarkson (AKA Zee) Yesterday, the Truth Media Radio Team, led by Amadu Lamrana Bah, sounded an urgent […]

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How do you handle a political enigma called Mohamed Jagaban ?

October 11, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

How do you solve a political problem called Jagaban? Mohamed Omodu Kamara (MOK), popularly known as Jagaban may have come to the political arena comparatively recently, but he has been […]

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Cannibalism was a frightening fact in Sierra Leone during the 1967 General Elections

September 2, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

By Yankuba Kai- Samba Many youngsters today, who were not around before the 1967 general election, are peddling the misleading information that there were no ritual killings of young girls, […]

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The “Sam Metzger fraternity “ and 1970s press corps : I am now the last man standing

September 2, 2025 Kabs Kanu 0

“SAM METZGER FRATERNITY “, JOURNALISM, SPORTS- WRITING IN THE 70s : I AM NOW THE LAST MAN STANDING ; MY BUDDY, JAY WILLIE, IS GONE By Kabs Kanu James Williams […]

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Carter Center Deploys Expert Mission to Assess Sierra Leone’s Election Process

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 5, 2018 Contact: In Atlanta, Soyia Ellison, soyia.ellison@cartercenter.org                  In Freetown, Larry Garber, larry.garber@cartercenter.org, +232 (0) 079 603 392 Carter Center Deploys Expert Mission to Assess Sierra Leone’s […]

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Condemnation and rejection of Guinea coup grow around the world

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China rejects coup in Guinea The spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry called for the release of President Alpha Condé. China on Monday announced its rejection of the military coup […]

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“Sa .Leone Didn’t Go Against Advice of IMF/ World Bank “- Foreign Minister

June 15, 2016 0

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara has said, his country did not go against the advice given by its traditional development partners, […]

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Contrary viewpoint : Proportional Representation is good for Sierra Leone

July 13, 2022 0

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION IS BEST FOR SIERRA LEONE By Charlie J. Hughes When Sierra Leoneans go the polls in June 2023 it will be the country’s fifth routine multiparty elections since […]

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FORMER SPEAKER OF SIERRA LEONE PARLIAMENT WILLIAM CONTEH DIES

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  The death occured in Freetown yesterday of the former Speaker of Parliament, Mr. William Conteh. According to the former Secretary General of the opposition All People’s Congress ( APC), […]

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