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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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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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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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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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CAN THE SPECIAL COURT REALLY DELIVER JUSTICE ? A REJOINDER

March 13, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

CHIEF HINGA NORMAN By a concerned citizen  One would  have thought  that an international tribunal like the Sierra Leone Special Court should have been given the necessary authority and international […]

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SIERRA LEONE CAUGHT IN THE EYE OF A LEGAL HURRICANE

March 10, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Hinga Norman (left) and RUF’s Issa Sesay : Big men -of -the – gun  on trial  in a  land where justice is unknown. BY KABS KANU : The Hinga Norman […]

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SIERRA LEONE IS NO LONGER ANYBODY’S FIEFDOM

March 2, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

EDITORIAL   Thanks to the intervention into our internal affairs by the international community, Sierra Leone is no longer the personal fiefdom of any one person, group of persons, tribe, […]

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THE CRY FOR JUSTICE IN SIERRA LEONE

March 2, 2003 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU : The Special Court, which started its sittings in Sierra Leone , has generated some misunderstanding , that should not be the case.   The fact that there […]

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APC has accepted change as a political reality -Ernest Bai Koroma

September 28, 2002 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU Opposition leader, Mr.Ernest Bai Koroma, said today that his party has accepted change as a political reality and the APC was now on the verge of re-inventing […]

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Ambassador Isatu Timbo inducts into office Mary Metzger as newly appointed Chief of Staff

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By Kabs Kanu The ceremony was grand, auspicious and colorful. It was the induction into office last weekend of Madam Mary Metzger , who has been appointed Chief of Staff […]

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Mediocre flagbearer will not unsit a ruling government

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  TODAY’S CHANGED POLITICAL DYNAMICS AND REALITIES —VERY DEMANDING ! EITHER THE BEST OR NOTHING Mediocre politics will no longer benefit any party By Kabs Kanu Dynamics are not static. […]

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Minister Sylvia Blyden lauds gender parity and women’s leadership empowerment at MRU

June 6, 2017 0

June 5, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU COMMENTARY, Uncategorized 0   The Secretariat of the Mano River Union (MRU) will next Friday June 9th 2017 see a […]

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Moseray Fadika’s body arrives in Sierra Leone

August 19, 2016 0

The body of the late Ambassador Moseray Fadika arrived in Freetown today. Mr .Fadika, who was vying to run for the Presidency under the banner of the ruling All People’s […]

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Hon. Sho-Sawyer closes borders of Constituency 108 to Prevent Ebola

August 26, 2014 0

Culled from Awareness Times   The All Peoples Congress Member of Parliament representing Constituency 108, Hon. Dr. Michel Sho-Sawyer has past Thursday 21st August, at the Vine Memorial Secondary School Hall, […]

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President Koroma in Abu Dhabi…and Sierra Leone among six developing nations chosen for renewable energy projects

January 20, 2014 0

 By KABS KANU : Sierra Leone’s President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma is among many world leaders and heads of governments attending  the Abu Dhabi Sustainable Week in the United Arab […]

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PRESS RELEASE : International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, 6 February 2016

February 6, 2016 0

  Theme: Together, mobilizing to contribute to the achievement of the new Global Goals through the elimination of Female Genital Mutilation by 2030. Freetown 6 February 2016 – On the […]

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