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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 September 2020: One of Sierra Leone’s primary school - the EducAid Maronka Primary School in Port Loko, northern Sierra Leone will next month play a key part in the world’s biggest grassroots online education conference - World Education Week. EducAid Maronka Primary
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
COMMENTARY: "Losers"???!!! | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — My fury with Trump over his approach towards service men and women is not rooted in jingoism. Anyone having read any of my columns is aware of my consistent critiques of US foreign policy generally, and US military adventurism in particular. But, like many of you, I have had
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Former president Koroma and others issued travel ban
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2020: The Attorney General of Sierra Leone - Anthony Brewah, has issued travel ban on the former president of the country - Dr Ernest Bai Koroma, along with scores of ministers and senior public officials who served under his government before his ruling party
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Andile Lungisa decides to remain in prison despite being granted bail | News24
In contradiction of maintaining his innocence and his reasons for approaching the Constitutional Court, Andile Lungisa has allegedly opted to stay in prison.
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Government of Sierra Leone budget credibility questioned
Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 August 2020: The Public Financial Management Consortium (PFMC) has questioned the credibility of the Sierra Leone government budget. Critical analyses by the Consortium documented in two separate reports launched yesterday indicate that government
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Sierra Leone deserve a better opposition that can hold the SLPP government accountable – Op ed
Saikujohn Barrie: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 August 2020: I have attentively listened to Dr. Sylvia Blyden's audio advising the former President Ernest Bai Koroma who is the Chairman and Leader of the All People Congress (APC) and his executive to give way to younger and energetic party members to
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CHRDI And WANEP on peace mission in Makeni
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 August 2020: The Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI) and the West African Network for Peace (WANEP), in partnership with the United Nations Development Programe (UNDP) and the Government of Sierra Leone, have engaged key stakeholders on
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Gov. Newsom Implements Color-Coded System to Guide California Reopening
On Aug. 28, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new framework for re-opening businesses in California counties shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The state will move away from the previous “watch list” system and use a new four-tiered classification system to determine which counties can
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KwaZulu-Natal government names those who scored big with Covid-19 contracts | News24
The KwaZulu-Natal government has paid R17 million of its total R2.1 billion expenditure on Covid-19 to companies for which it has no details, Premier Sihle Zikalala has said.
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OP-ED: Black Americans and COVID-19 Clinical Trials | BlackPressUSA
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Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson Honored with NNPA 2020 National Leadership Award | BlackPressUSA
2020 NNPA LEADERSHIP AWARDS — Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), who began his grassroots political activism being a civil rights champion through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Tougaloo College, will receive the National Newspaper Publishers Association
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The Generation of Change: FGCU’s Response to the BLM Movement - Featured, Front Page, News - Eagle News
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Sierra Leone’s journalists condemn spread of hate messages on social media
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 September 2020: The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), in a press statement issued last Friday 28 August, 2020, signed by its Secretary General -  Mohamed Asmieu Bah, says that it is concerned about the proliferation of videos, audios, and
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ACC reacts to allegations of corruption in Sierra Leone parliament
Patrick Sandi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 September 2020: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) notes public reactions and rightful concerns on allegations of corruption within the House of Parliament in Sierra Leone, emanating from the 2019 Perceptions Survey Report commissioned in April, 2020, by
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DA lashes out at Ndabeni-Abrahams over SABC board resignation
The Democratic Alliance (DA) said Parliament needs to intervene, to avoid another crisis at the SABC
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Oversight Committee to Hold Hearing with Postmaster General DeJoy on Sweeping Changes to Postal Service | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The hearing will examine operational and organizational changes at the Postal Service that have resulted in delivery delays across the country, including the delivery of critical medications, and the impact of these changes on the rights of eligible Americans to cast their votes
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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser to Receive NNPA 2020 National Leadership Award | BlackPressUSA
2020 NNPA NATIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARDS — A graduate of Chatham University and American University – with honorary degrees from both Chatham University and Trinity University, Mayor Muriel Bowser has moved the forefront of racial equality and social justice.
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Bio government is hell bent on frustrating Mayor Aki-Sawyerr
Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 September 2020: Following the intervention of key political actors in Sierra Leone such as Marcella Samba Sesay, Ibrahim Tommy and Andrew Keili of the NGC and the adverse publicity in the media, the Ministry of Local Government invited the Freetown City Council
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DA 'disgusted' by ANC using SANDF jet to fly to Zimbabwe, slams 'abuse of state machinery' | News24
The DA has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to clarify why an ANC-led delegation was able to fly to Zimbabwe using a SANDF air force jet.
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Massive fraud exposed at Sierra Leone embassy in China
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 August 2020: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) sources in Freetown last night confirmed to the Sierra Leone Telegraph that the ACC is investigating the disappearance of almost One Million Dollars from a Sierra Leone Embassy Bank account held in Beijing, China, and operated
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WATCH: Wednesday's Episode of Generations - The Legacy, E208 S29 (9 September 2020)
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MPs in Sierra Leone are failing at the jobs people want them to do – Says new report
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 September 2020: In 2007, the United Nations General Assembly declared 15 September as the International Day of Democracy, with the purpose of promoting and upholding the principles of democracy, hence last Tuesday, 15 September 2020, an Afrobarometer report which
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