Sierra Leone remembers victims of deadly mudslide

2018-08-15 10

Sierra Leone's president Julius Maada Bio joins dozens of survivors of a mudslide that hit the capital of Freetown last year to remember the dead. That day in August 2017, heavy rains lashed the slopes left bare by chronic deforestation in Freetown, and huge boulders suddenly detached, rolling onto informal settlements, crushing shacks and enveloping entire households in red mud.

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