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…
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…
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,…
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…
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 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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
