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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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Sam Sumana’s Case Takes A Political Twist, as APC braces for the last laugh

June 23, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By We Yone Staff Writer Ever since Alhaji Samuel Sam-Sumana took the case of him losing the position of Vice President of the Republic Sierra Leone to the Supreme Court, […]

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VP Victor Foh commissions new Sierra Leone ferry

June 12, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  STATEMENT BY THE HON. VICE PRESIDENT, VICTOR BOCKARIE FOH ON BEHALF OF H.E. DR ERNEST BAI KOROMA AT THE COMMISSIONING OF SIERRA QUEEN FERRY AT LAGOONDA COMPLEX ABERDEEN THURSDAY […]

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Sam Sumana defence in disarray, as former VP sacks Lawyer Blyden Jenkins-Johnston and picks PMDC Leader Charles Margai

June 9, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0
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Zainab Bangura Speaks on Sexual Violence & hails President Obama, UN Secretary General Ban Ki – Moon in the fight against Ebola

June 7, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By M.B. Jalloh, Press Attaché, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States and Central Asia Madam Zainab Hawa Bangura is a very busy woman. As the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual […]

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Leone Stars honour Sierra Leone’s Goodwill Ambassador Isatu Timbo

June 5, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone’s Goodwill Ambassador to the United States , Mrs. Isatu Timbo-Nwokedi,  received two different honors during  Sierra Leone’s 54th Independence Anniversary celebrations in California on Saturday April 25, 2015. […]

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President Ernest Koroma urges more sensitization on the issue of pregnant girls

May 21, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By State House Communications Unit As the Ebola epidemic finally appears to be petering out necessitating the reopening of schools countrywide, the issue of allowing pregnant school girls to […]

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Ghana to continue to stand by Sierra Leone and Ebola-affected countries

May 13, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Vice President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has stated the Chairman of Ecowas, President Mahama and the people of Ghana are committed in the continuing process of putting their resources together to […]

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President Koroma and 9 C-10 Heads of State in Zambia : The Times of Zambia newspaper

May 9, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By ANDREW PHIRI – NAMIBIAN President Hage Geingbo and Sierra Leone’s Ernest Koroma are expected in the Tourist Capital Livingstone today to attend the Committee of 10 (C10) summit on […]

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Sexual violence being used as a “tactic of terror” to target religious and ethnic minorities : Zainab Bangura

April 30, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Interview with Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict. UN Photo/Amanda […]

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Is Sam Sumana now paying SLPP supporters to wear APC shirts at the demonstrations ? THE FACES OF THE IMPERSONATORS

April 27, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

I have just been informed once again by APC officials in the UK that the following faces in APC T-shirts are impersonators . They are SLPP fanatics supporting the dismissed […]

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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 Leoneans thumb down creation of new districts and dividing of Freetown

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The government’s decision to create new districts—without clear legal backing, public consultation, or economic justification—appears politically driven and constitutionally questionable. It threatens: • Domestic democratic stability, • Economic sustainability, and […]

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UN report commends Sierra Leone’s Ebola fight* Sherriff Ahmed Ismail A new study by the United Nations-based *Better Than Cash Alliance* finds out that digital payments to Ebola response workers […]

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Good News : Two Sierra Leonean doctors infected with Ebola recovering

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Preliminary reports trickling in from the Hastings Treatment Center say after 72 hours of intensive treatment, Dr. Kai Songu-MBriwah has been cleared of the dreadful Ebola Virus Disease.Dr. Songu-MBriwah who […]

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ECSL files application asking Supreme Court to throw out objections against Samura Kamara’s presidential candidacy

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ECSL COMMISSIONER MOHAMED KONNEH The Elections Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL)  has filed an application in the Supreme Court asking the court to dismiss the application filed by rebels of […]

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His dismissal and bad health took tragic toll on him : RIP, Claudius Beckley

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RIP, Claudius Beckley Little over a year ago, one of the most popular bloggers in Sierra Leone, Claudius Beckley was dismissed from the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) on allegations […]

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September 4, 2011 |  While Maada Bio is struggling to get even a decent crowd to go  listen to him deliver his very important  maiden campaign statement as flagbearer of the […]

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