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FORMER SPEAKER OF SIERRA LEONE PARLIAMENT WILLIAM CONTEH DIES

February 7, 2007 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  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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SLPP says PMDC claims about Hinga Norman are false, and Freetown news briefs

February 2, 2007 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 The ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP) says it does not believe claims by the opposition People’s Movement For Democratic Change ( PMDC)  that Former Internal Affairs Minister , […]

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Special Court of Delay?

February 2, 2007 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Jacob Sax Conteh Virginia, US Jacobconteh@yahoo.com   How can justice that has been delayed for so many years be real justice?  How can those of us who lost loved […]

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CORRUPTION : A NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERN FOR THE APC

February 1, 2007 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

      By Francis Pa Santhkie Bangura, Acting Secretary General APC, USA     This country has one perennial problem. I call it perennial because it is endemic as […]

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Chief Hingha Norman Blasts Special Court for Sierra Leone

January 23, 2007 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Culled from AWARENESS TIMES By Sayoh Kamara Jan 23, 2007, 11:32   The Special Court for Sierra Leone in the early hours of yesterday, 17th January 2007 flew out two […]

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What’s the Medical Policy of the SLPP, APC, Or PMDC?

January 17, 2007 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Oswald Hanciles I have written several times in this Column that what we have in Sierra Leone is a ‘fake democracy’.  Seven months to another General Elections in our […]

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COCORIOKO EDITOR CALLS HINGA NORMAN BUT INTERRUPTED

January 17, 2007 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  The Editor-In-Chief of COCORIOKO, Rev. Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu called the one-time Coordinator of the Civil Defence Force ( CDF), Chief Hinga Norman today to seek clarfication about his whereabouts […]

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SLPP exposes PMDC’s attempt ‘to discredit elections’

January 17, 2007 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

VICTOR REIDER By Abdul Karim Koroma 17/1/2007 Publicity Secretary of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), Hon. Victor Reider Tuesday said his party has unearthed the Peoples Movement for Democratic […]

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THE NEW FACE OF THE ALL PEOPLE’S CONGRESS ( APC) IN NORTH AMERICA

January 15, 2007 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 The interim Secretary General of the All Peoples Congress party (APC) in the United States, Francis Pa Santhkie Bangura; a graduate in international Politics with American Studies. A mortgage broker […]

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SIERRA LEONE NEEDS SERIOUS POLICIES; NOT THREATS FROM CHARLES MARGAI

January 15, 2007 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Sia Tiyaama (Maryland, USA)   It is easy tell when some politicians get anxious about their chances of winning elections. In the USA, politicians resort to very nasty […]

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