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Former UK leader Boris Johnson joins a march against antisemitism in London

Springfield News-Sun 26 Nov 2023
Johnson was joined by the U.K.'s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and other senior government officials at the march to express solidarity with the Jewish community ... Credit. AP. Credit. AP. Credit. AP. Credit. AP ... AP ... AP ... Curfew in Sierra Leone after gunmen attacked the main military barracks ... Lawyer for Italian student arrested in ex-girlfriend's slaying says.
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Winner of the Booker Prize for fiction set to be announced in London

Springfield News-Sun 26 Nov 2023
LONDON (AP) — The winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction will be announced on Sunday. If bookmakers are right, the victorious writer will be named Paul ... and Ireland ... Credit. AP. Credit. AP. Credit. AP ... Curfew in Sierra Leone after gunmen attacked the main military barracks ... Lawyer for Italian student arrested in ex-girlfriend's slaying says.
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Tom Allen won't return for eighth season as Indiana Hoosiers coach, AP sources say

Springfield News-Sun 26 Nov 2023
The Indiana Hoosiers will not bring back coach Tom Allen next year for an eighth season, two people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Sunday ... ___ ... Sign up here. ___. AP college football ... Curfew in Sierra Leone after gunmen attacked the main military barracks ... Lawyer for Italian student arrested in ex-girlfriend's slaying says.
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Attackers seize an Israel-linked tanker off Yemen in a third such assault during Israel-Hamas war

Springfield News-Sun 26 Nov 2023
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Attackers seized a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday, authorities said ... Zodiac called the seizure “a suspected piracy incident.” ... The U.S ...U.S ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... Curfew in Sierra Leone after gunmen attacked the main military barracks ... Lawyer for Italian student arrested in ex-girlfriend's slaying says.
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Fragile Gaza truce is back on track as Egypt says it has received lists for ...

Springfield News-Sun 26 Nov 2023
In a separate development, Hamas announced that one of its top commanders had been killed, without saying when or how. Israel's military confirmed it ... 7. Sullivan also said that U.S ... All are women and minors ... Curfew in Sierra Leone after gunmen attacked the main military barracks ... Lawyer for Italian student arrested in ex-girlfriend's slaying says.
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What’s Unsaid | Genocide or not, what difference does a word make?

The New Humanitarian 23 Nov 2023
Yasmin Sooka, Human Rights Lawyer ... Joining us today is Yasmin Sooka, a human rights lawyer who has investigated serious war crimes in places like Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka ... You're someone who has dealt with these kinds of issues from South Africa to Sierra Leone, and you're obviously very well-versed in all of this.
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Comment on Peter C Anderson by Victor Richard Stockinger

Sierra Leone Telegraph 14 Oct 2023
I write this in the context that, although I am a practising commercial lawyer, I have been studying the Laws of Sierra Leone for several years while at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. The Sierra Leone Web web ...
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Land reform in Africa is challenging the power of chiefs

Economist 12 Oct 2023
“We saw chiefs riding roughshod on communities, insisting on investments even when communities didn’t want it,” says Sonkita Conteh, a lawyer at Namati, a civil-society group that has worked on hundreds of land cases in Sierra Leone.\nChiefs there are elected from historic ruling families by rural notables and serve for life.
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President Bio accused of lacking moral compass after agreeing to set up embassy in Israel ...

Sierra Leone Telegraph 29 Aug 2023
Writing on Twitter, Basita MichaelSierra Leone’s most prominent civil liberty campaigner and lawyer said. ... Is Sierra Leone seeking to curry favour with the United States at the expense of established diplomatic norms and international stability? The timing of this decision ...
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President Bio accused of prioritising spending on public relations rather than tackle poverty

Sierra Leone Telegraph 26 Aug 2023
Sierra Leone Telegraph ... There is deep anger across many parts of Sierra Leone as President Bio hires a US advertising and publicity agency to help clean up his government’s poor image abroad ... the President is showing his total lack of compassion for the poor people of Sierra Leone.
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Seychelles’s Former President to lead Commonwealth observers in Maldives election |25 August 2023

Nation 25 Aug 2023
... and Politics, from the University of the West Indies, Saint Lucia; Ambassador Alari Awahnatu Cole, from the ECOWAS Council of the Wise and former ambassador and high Commissioner of Sierra Leone; Singapore’s former nominated member of parliament and lawyer Mahdev Mohan.
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President Bio’s proposed Elections Review Committee is a sham aimed at diverting attention from rigged ...

Sierra Leone Telegraph 09 Aug 2023
Sierra Leone Telegraph. 8 August 2023. ... Writing on Twitter yesterday, former President of the Sierra Leone Bar Association and Human Rights Lawyer – Barrister Basita Michael, criticised President Bio’s proposed elections review committee. This is what she says.. .
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Honourable Eddie Turay passes away

The Patriotic Vanguard 29 Jun 2023
A seasoned Academic, Author and Lawyer, the late ace politician has served Sierra Leone in many leadership and governance positions including as Majority Leader in Parliament and as Sierra Leone High Commissioner to Great Britain where ...
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Informant testifies she was bribed to tell lies about the murder victim at Greg Leon trial

The Post and Courier 23 Jun 2023
Before going into the office of attorney Dick Harpootlian, who was representing Leon, Sierra was being told what to tell the lawyer about Santos ... After the meeting at the attorney’s office, SLED agents followed Sierra to a San Jose restaurant where Leon’s Cadillac Escalade was parked outside.
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African Liberation Day

The Patriotic Vanguard 27 May 2023
It was an association of 31 independent African states, including Ghana, Egypt, Morocco, Liberia, Libya, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, and Sudan ... The late scholar Cyrenus Nyan Forh and others classified the Liberian situation as “Black Colonialism.” In 1961, Sierra Leone gained independence under the leadership of Milton Margai.
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