After a period of sustained gunfire and clashes between “renegade soldiers” and police, Sierra Leone says calm has been restored and the soldiers pushed back to the outskirts of the capital, Freetown. There was a nationwide curfew and a closure of the border with neighbouring Guinea. CBC | World News
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Hundreds missing in Sierra Leone mudslides likely dead
The number of victims from flooding and mudslides that hit Sierra Leone’s capital early Monday now exceeds 450. CBC | World News
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More than 200 people were killed and many more are feared dead after a mudslide struck the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown on Monday. CBC | World News
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