Sierra Leone

Freetown, Sierra Leone – Walking into my hotel three days after the August 14 mudslides, I arrived to the sight of foreign news crews packing up their bags and heading for the airport. “The story is over,” said one British journalist looking down at his phone in the hotel lobby as he exhaled huge clouds of white […]

entered a week-long mourning period for the victims of flooding that killed more than 300 people, with fears rising for at least 600 missing people. Three days of torrential rain triggered mudslides on Monday in the Regent area of the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, and massive flooding elsewhere in the city, one of the world’s wettest urban […]

AP Relatives dug through the mud in search of their loved ones and a morgue overflowed with bodies Monday after heavy rains and flooding early in the day killed at least 200 people in Sierra Leone’s capital. Bodies were spread out on the floor of a morgue, Sinneh Kamara, a coroner technician at the Connaught […]

Sierra Leone’s government said Thursday it would seek higher offers in Belgium for a massive 709-carat diamond found by an Evangelical preacher after underwhelming offers at auction at home. A Thursday auction in Freetown drew a top bid for the uncut gem — which has a reddish stain that has so far resisted efforts to […]