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Government’s silence over Air crash : Sylvia Blyden writes President Tejan Kabbah

August 15, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

DR. SYLVIA BLYDEN WRITES PRESIDENT AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH ABOUT SLPP GOVERNMENT’S EARDEAFENING SILENCE ON WEDNESDAY’S PLANE CRASH AT THE LUNGI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, FREETOWN SUNDAY AUGUST 15, 2004 OPEN LETTER TO […]

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Shirley Gbujama addresses addresses effects of postwar trauma

August 7, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  SHIRLEY GBUJAMA ADDRESSES EFFECTS OF POSTWAR TRAUMASaturday August 7, 2004 Sampson Cole reports from Freetown Trauma survivors and war-affected communities are to benefit from an integrated psychosocial community-counselling programme […]

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Journalist’s life in danger : Family complains

August 4, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Members of the family of controversial journalist, Sheka Tarawalie, currently in London after attending a seminar of editors from post-war countries, are complaining that there have been recent threats to […]

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NEWS FLASH : President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah reshuffles his cabinet

August 2, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Monday August 2, 2004 12:20 PM(EST) President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has reshuffled his cabinet , as exclusively reported to COCORIOKO this morning by reliable sources from Freetown . But from […]

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Sierra Leone Special Court turns in employee who allegedly had carnal knowledge of 13 year old girl

July 30, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 Friday July 30, 2004 A   Police  investigation had been going on in Freetown about allegations that an investigator of the Special Court had sexual intercourse with a 13-year -old schoolgirl. […]

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Rebels killed kids and packed their heads in a bag, says tearful prosecution witness

July 27, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Tuesday July 27, 2004 More tears have been shed by witnesses  at the Special Court for Sierra Leone as they continue to narrate the atrocities  allegedly committed by rebels […]

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Woman cries bitterly as tells Special Court how rebels raped her before son and massacred her whole family in Kono

July 22, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Sampson Cole in Freetown Thursday  July 22, 2004 At the Special Court yesterday, the fifth Prosecution Witness wept while narrating how rebels in Kono allegedly killed her two […]

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WEST SIDE BOYS GO WILD IN PRISON

July 22, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

WEST SIDE BOYS By Sampson Cole in Freetown Thursday July 22, 2004 The Westside Boys who have been incarcerated in Prison over two years now, for various charges on murder […]

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SIERRA LEONE KIDS STILL FACE HUGE CHALLEGE -UNICEF Chief

July 18, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

SIERRA LEONE KIDS STILL FACE HUGE CHALLEGE -UNICEF Chief Sunday July 18, 2004 By Sampson Cole “ A lot of progress has been made but, our children are still faced with […]

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New political leader urges Sierra Leoneans to join his party and help him take country back from corrupt politicians

July 13, 2004 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 Tuesday July 13, 2004 The leader and National Chairman of the National Alliance Democratic Party ( NADP), Mr. Mohamed Yahya Sillah,  has called on all Sierra Leoneans to join the […]

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  • Parliament is right; First Lady is wrong : There is no law against FGM in Sierra Leone
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Exclusive Report : UN Signing ceremony of Paris Agreement on Climate Change April 22, 2016

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By KABS KANU : The Paris Agreement on Climate Change will be deposited at the UN  in New York and opened for signature for one year on Thursday April 22, […]

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