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Death toll from Sierra Leone mudslides nears 500

Churches across Sierra Leone have held special services in memory of those killed in mudslides and flooding earlier this week, as hospital officials announced...

Death toll from Sierra Leone mudslides rises with hundreds more missing

The death toll from Sierra Leone's mudslides is now above 400, the United Nations said. The UN humanitarian agency said 409 bodies have been found...

More than 300 dead, 600 missing, after mudslide engulfs people in Sierra Leone as they sleep

Surging mudslides and floodwaters in and around Sierra Leone's capital Freetown have killed more than 300 people, many of them trapped as they slept. Another...

Over €5bn promines to West Africa ‘cannot be traced’

Over €5bn that was promised for Ebola hit West Africa cannot be traced - according to Oxfam. The charity has said more than a billion...

Sierra Leone hours from being declared free of Ebola

Leone – where British nurse Pauline Cafferkey caught Ebola – is just hours from being declared free of the disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO)...

Businessman arrested in Sierra Leone ‘blood diamond’ case

Authorities have arrested a businessman who is accused of enslavement and pillaging “blood diamonds” during Sierra Leone’s civil war. Civitas Maxima, a Geneva-based organisation that...

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