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Sierra Leone mudslide: president calls for urgent help as search continues

Hundreds feared dead, thousands still missing and many more left homeless after mud engulfs houses near the capital, Freetown

Sierra Leone’s president has appealed for urgent help to support the thousands of people affected by a devastating mudslide on the outskirts of the country’s capital.

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