Sierra Leone – 7 Fatalities After Floods Hit Freetown
At least 7 people have lost their lives after storms and heavy rain caused flooding and mudslides in parts of Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Stormy weather…
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Deforestation Is Causing More Storms in West Africa, Satellite Study Finds
Deforestation is causing more storms in West Africa according to Christopher Taylor, Meteorologist, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and Douglas Parker, Professor of Meteorology, University of Leeds. We know…
Sierra Leone – Torrential Rains Trigger Deadly Floods in Freetown
At least 6 people have lost their lives after torrential rains caused floods and landslides across parts of Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone. The fatalities occurred when a mudslide destroyed…
Sierra Leone – Deadly Flash Floods Hit Freetown
Local media in Sierra Leone are reporting that several people have died after flash floods in the capital, Freetown, on 02 August. The city saw torrential rain on 02 August,…
Sierra Leone Mudslide Survivors Live in Fear of Fresh Disaster
FREETOWN, May 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kadiatu Koroma only narrowly escaped the mudslide that engulfed her home in Sierra Leone’s ramshackle capital last August, killing an estimated 1,000 people…
Mudslide in Sierra Leone Exposes Dangers of Freetown’s Unchecked Sprawl
FREETOWN, Nov 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Augustine Deen, a 31-year-old officer with the Sierra Leone Police Force, was on night duty at his post in Freetown, counting down the…
Sierra Leone Mudslide Was a Man-Made Tragedy That Could Have Been Prevented
Sierra Leone is still reeling from the effects of a mudslide that killed nearly 1 000 people, left hundreds missing and rendered thousands homeless. After about five hours of heavy…
Donors’ aid pledges for Sierra Leone after deadly mudslide
Dozens of houses were engulfed by mud when a mountainside collapsed in the town of Regent, on the edge of Freetown. DAKAR, Aug 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Donor pledges…
How can Sierra Leone learn from mudslide to avert future deaths?
“Freetown and other precarious cities need safer urban planning and land use initiatives” DAKAR – A mudslide which devastated Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown this week, killing about 400 people and…
Sierra Leone – Meteorological Agency Faces Forecast and Warning Challenges
Gabriel Kpaka of Sierra Leone Meteorological Agency gives a meteorological perspective of the flood and landslide disaster in Regent Village, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Torrential rain in the late hours of…
Resilience has become a way of life in Sierra Leone, now mourning hundreds lost in mudslide
A nation “once again… gripped by grief”. This was how Ernest Bai Koroma, president of Sierra Leone, described the effects of the mudslide that devastated Regent, on the outskirts of…
Sierra Leone – Over 300 Dead After Mudslide and Floods in Freetown
A mudslide on the outskirts Freetown, Sierra Leone on 14 August 2017, has left more than 300 people dead. The areas has experienced 3 days of heavy rain, which has…
Sierra Leone – Freetown Flood Victims Still in Temporary Camps 4 Months On
The Red Cross say that victims of the floods that struck in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in September 2015 are still displaced, staying in camps at stadiums. In Freetown, an estimated…
Sierra Leone – Floods in Freetown Leave 4 Dead, Many Homeless
Major flooding brought by torrential rain hit parts of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, yesterday 16 September, 2015. In a statement issued late yesterday, the government confirmed that 4…
