NEW YORK TIMES COVERAGE OF SIERRA LEONE DISASTER By JAIME YAYA BARRY August 14, 2017 Mudslides and flooding caused by heavy rain killed scores of people in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. […]
President Uhuru Kenyatta received news of the recent tragedy in Sierra Leone with dismay and sadness. Kenya and Sierra Leone are allies, partners and friends, so our thoughts and prayers […]
7 days of Mourning across the country has been declared with immediate effect The National Flag will be Flown at Half Mast All relatives are asked to visit the Connaught […]
PRESS RELEASE UNITED NATIONS PROVIDES EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES IN SIERRA LEONE FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, 15 August 2017 – Yesterday a series of landslides […]
President Ernest Koroma has visited the mudslide disaster site in Freetown. Here are the photos from various sources .
WHILE FREETOWN is reeling from the massive mudslide disaster that struck it on Monday morning, we have reports that the Southern Region capital, Bo, has been hit by floods due […]
Press Release* The Sierra Leone Bar Association is gravely distraught by the tragedies which occurred in the morning of 14th August 2017 at Regent, Kaningo and other affected areas […]
By State House Communication Unit President Ernest Bai Koroma has twice visited the Mortormeh community at Regent where a deadly mudslide took place which claimed several lives. The mudslide, which […]
Ambassador Osman Foday Yansaneh PRESS STATEMENT FROM THE APC NATIONAL SECRETARIAT THE APC NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (NAC) HEREBY INFORMS ITS ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP AND THE GENERAL REPUBLIC THAT THE DATES FOR […]
ISRAEL TO SEND AID TO SIERRA LEONE AFTER DEVASTATING LANDSLIDE. Prom Minister Netanyahu instructs Foreign Ministry to send medicine, clean water, blankets to flood-stricken Freetown, where hundreds are dead By […]
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