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Early life, family and education. According to a Cocorioko Newspaper article, Rev. Leeroy Wilfred Kabs Kanu was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone.His father is the late Pa Lamina Kanu of the Loko people from Gbendembu, Sierra Leone and his mother, the late Mammie Yaebu Kanu, also a Loko from the same Chiefdom, was a stay at home mom who raised seven children.
This is a List of newspapers in Sierra Leone. Dozens of newspapers are published in Sierra Leone with 15 daily newspapers operational. Most of the newspapers are privately run and are mostly distributed around the capital of Freetown due to the low levels of literacy within the small western African nation.
Mass media in Sierra Leone began when the first modern printing press in Africa arrived at the start of the 19th century. In the 1860s the country became a journalist hub for Africa with professional travelling to the country from across the continent. At the end of the 19th century the industry went into decline and when radio was introduced ...
v. t. e. Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (16 February 1932 – 13 March 2014) was a Sierra Leonean politician who served twice as the 3rd President of Sierra Leone, from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007. [1] An economist and attorney by profession, Kabbah spent many years working for the United Nations Development Programme. [1]
Tom Nyuma (1971-January 26, 2014 [1]) was a Sierra Leonean military commander and the chairman of the Kailahun District council. He was elected as chairman of Kailahun District council on July 6, 2008 with 87% of the vote running on the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) ticket. Nyuma was born in Kailahun, and was very popular in the ...
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Sheka Tarawalie is a Sierra Leonean journalist, writer and author who, until March 2016, was Sierra Leone's Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, a position he got in January 2013 in the new cabinet of President Ernest Bai Koroma's second term. He was previously the Deputy Minister of Information & Communications, to which he was appointed in ...
Noa Argamani, a rescued hostage, embraces her father, Yakov Argamani, following her rescue, on June 8, 2024. - Israeli Army/Handout via Reuters. Argamani was in captivity for eight months before ...