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Nurses to down tools 1stSeptember
Tuesday August 16, 2004 Tamba Borbor reports from Freetown At around 9:00am on Friday 12th August, Nurses converged at the National School of Nursing in protest over their incorporation into […]
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Government’s silence over Air crash : Sylvia Blyden writes President Tejan Kabbah
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]