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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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Front Page Comment : TREATING NATION’S ECONOMIC SABOTEURS WITH KID GLOVES

October 18, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  PRESIDENT KABBAH Sierra Leone, as a nation recovering from war, can never progress socio-economically and politically if the caveat of financial accountability, especially, is not given it’s desired place […]

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PRESIDENT KABBAH, THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

October 12, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  PRESIDENT KABBAH, THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS PLAYING HARDBALL WITH KABS KANU, Esq Sunday October 12, 2003 When in 1995 the one -time UN […]

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HINGA NORMAN : A LIFE TIME OF POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES … and life on a knife’s edge………

September 16, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  HINGA NORMAN : A PLAQUE OF INFAMY OR HEROISM ?  Wilfred Kabs- Kanu looks at a  jolly man whose political lifestyle has embodied controversy so far…..   The name […]

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IDI AMIN , THE REMORSELESS MASS MURDERER WHO ESCAPED JUSTICE

August 17, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

IDI AMIN  , THE REMORSELESS MASS MURDERER WHO ESCAPED JUSTICE EDITORIAL Sunday August 17, 2003 The death in exile of one of the most repulsive and cruel dictators in world […]

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President Tejan Kabbah’s testimony before the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC )

August 5, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Mr. Chairman and members of the Commission, I am delighted to have been invited to make a statement at these public hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, particularly on […]

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Ex-President Joseph Momoh : A PROMISING LIFE HIGHJACKED BY PSEUDO-POLITICS

August 3, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Sunday August 3, 2003 Ex-President Joseph Saidu Momoh, who died in Conakry, Guinea today of complications from hypertension, was one of the most promising Sierra Leoneans at Independence in […]

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The lessons of Foday Sankoh’s demise

July 30, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sankoh became an eyesore before he died   The lesson to be learned from the death on Tuesday of Sierra Leone’s voluptuosly-greedy and power -conscious rebel leader, Foday Sankoh, is […]

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SamForay hails international community and UN for ignoring Special Court plea for more money

April 7, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Wednesday April 7, 2003 We are pleased to know that the international community is slowly but surely coming to our long observed point of view that the so-called Special […]

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Mother -of- all -trials

April 6, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By  Rev. Alfred SamForay  : This week, the Appeals Chamber of the so-called Special Court for Sierra Leone will handle two hot potatoes on its plate: The fate of […]

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  • 65th Independence anniversary : Echoes of a dark and ugly past ; Appeal to President Bio not to drag Sierra Leone into another war
  • 65 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE have been Cruel luck for the people of Sierra Leone
  • Sixty-five years after independence, one painful truth remains: we, as a people, have failed Mama Salone.
  • Independence Anniversary : A reflection on the role of the SLPP in national unity, peace agreements and political responsibility
  • 65 years of Independence : Let us be honest for a second
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65th Independence anniversary : Echoes of a dark and ugly past ; Appeal to President Bio not to drag Sierra Leone into another war

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COCORIOKO EDITORIAL: Echoes of a Dark Past – An Independence Day Plea for Sierra Leone’s Soul As Sierra Leone marks another Independence Anniversary, the air should ideally be thick with […]

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By Kabs Kanu The April 27, 1961 Independence ushered in what could be rightly described as cruel luck for the people of  Sierra Leone.  Independence was meant to usher in […]

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Meet Ambassador Adikalie Foday Sumah : THE NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE UN

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President Ernest Bai Koroma today graciously appointed Ambassador Adikalie Foday Sumah as the new Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations. The former Guinea Envoy’s new appointment was one […]

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OP-ED : Reaching an Agreement on Climate Change   From rising sea levels and the erosion of coastal shorelines to severe flooding, the signs of climate change surround us. As […]

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Better a Grey Head with Blessed Hands than a Rogue Head with a Bleeding Skull and Bloody Hands

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Maada Bio is a trash talker that is biting more than he can chew. During the introduction of his obvious preference as running mate Dr. Khadi Sesay, he made a […]

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SOLDIERS ARREST GUINEA BISSAU PRESIDENT FOR RIGGING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS By Kabs Kanu The President of Guinea Bissau, Umaro Sissoko Embalo, has been arrested by the country’s armed forces for rigging […]

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