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  • [ June 15, 2025 ] Freetown Doesn’t Need a New “City” – It Needs Accountability and Inclusion ACTION NEWS
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The Legacy of the British Legal System Continues to Inflict Misery in Sierra Leone

March 18, 2025 cocorioko 0

The Legacy of the British Legal System Continues to Inflict Misery in Sierra Leone Decades after independence, colonial-era laws have created a mass-incarceration crisis in Sierra Leone as poor citizens […]

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Divide and rule : How Africa’s political elites exploit poverty to maintain power

March 18, 2025 cocorioko 0

“Divide and Rule: How Africa’s Political Elites Exploit Poverty to Maintain Power” By Dr Columba Blango. Bob Marley’s words in Ambush in the Night—*“they keep us hungry, but when you […]

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If I were President Bio, I would resign and call early elections

March 18, 2025 cocorioko 0

Eagle’s Eye “If I were President Bio, I would Resign and Call Early Election … Cocaine Saga!!! By Septimus A.M. Saffa The Watergate scandal in the 70s forced President Richard […]

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The presence of cocaine druglord in Sierra Leone : Dutch authorities request his extradition

February 7, 2025 cocorioko 0

Home News: 6th February 2025 Dutch Authorities Request for Extradition of Cocaine Baron Netherlands Seeks Extradition of Convicted Drug Criminal Jos Leijdekkers from Sierra Leone David van Weel, Dutch Minister […]

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Sierra Leone Government says President Maada Bio has no knowledge of the identity of International drug lord he is seen with in video

January 27, 2025 cocorioko 0
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Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Guinea questioned over suitcases of cocaine found in Embassy vehicle

January 19, 2025 cocorioko 0

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Guinea Questioned Over Cocaine found in his car! Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Guinea who is also the ruling SLPP party’s Kambia District Chairman, Alimamy Hassan Bangura, […]

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SLPP Government to promote free for all abortion in Sierra Leone

December 21, 2024 cocorioko 0

*The Threat of the “Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health Care Act 2024″* *By David Lahai Kargbo* The proposed “Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health Care Act” of 2024, while ostensibly aimed […]

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The forceful deportation of Sierra Leoneans in Guinea : Implications under international conventions

December 16, 2024 cocorioko 0

*THE FORCEFUL DEPORTATION OF SIERRA LEONEANS LIVING IN GUINEA: Implications Under International Conventions* *Raymond A. Kamara* *Omega National Front* *15/12/2024* *Freetown* *IN RECENT MONTHS* , the Guinean government, under the […]

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Mass deportation of sierra Leoneans in neighbouring Guinea by military junta government

December 12, 2024 cocorioko 0

Guinea has not only sparked havoc for Sierra Leoneans in Guinea but has inflicted untold suffering on them by leveling their dwelling places and deporting them from the country.   […]

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Sierra Leoneans call on the people for peaceful demonstration against SLPP Government on December 10

December 5, 2024 cocorioko 0

*If we sit back and allow Maada Bio and his SLPP cronies, who have been responsible for the brutal killings of our people, to escape unscathed after stealing our elections, […]

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  • Crisis in Parliament : Neutrality undermined or opposition rebrand ?
  • Sierra Leoneans thumb down creation of new districts and dividing of Freetown
  • WHY FORGIVENESS MUST BE PART OF SIERRA LEONE’S POLITICAL FUTURE
  • Freetown Doesn’t Need a New “City” – It Needs Accountability and Inclusion
  • Karpowership says it is willing to work with government to stave off looming big electricity blackout crisis
  • Sierra Leone about to be plunged into total darkness as Karpowership decides to cut off electricity because of SLPP Government’s failure to pay debt
  • Fugitive Bank Governor Kelfala Kallon to be arrested if he insists on being paid in dollars : Trapped by his own regulation
  • Opposition APC MPs Suspend Participation from all activities and Committees in Sierra Leone Parliament_*
  • The silence of Bio-led SLPP Government on U.S visa ban is very dangerous—MP says
  • In A War Of Egos, The Loser Always Wins.
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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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  Sierra Leone was among 47 African countries represented at the recently concluded Ministerial economic summit in Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea. Established jointly by the Ministry […]

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BINTUMANI 3 : The failed concept of the proposed National Cohesion and Peace Conference

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Is President Maada Bio using the Commission of Inquiry White Paper to intimidate, blackmail and punish only outspoken critics of his misrule?

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