About 1, households with over 7, people have been registered as needing help. Kamara was asleep in the early hours of Aug. The community of Regent, on the slopes of Mount Sugar Loaf, was devastated, with locals believing the real death toll is closer to 1, people with hundreds still lying dead under the rubble and more than 3, left homeless. I fell with my child and passed out instantly. I was covered entirely in dirt but luckily my hands were visible and that's how they found me.
But her baby, Mohamed Sesay, was consumed by the force of the earth. His body has not been found. Kamara is one of thousands who lost everything in the mudslide and is now living in one of several camps set up by the government with the help of international aid agencies.
About 1, households with over 7, people have been registered as needing help, according to O. Sisay, who is leading a disaster response taskforce set up by the president. He led the response team after a Ebola outbreak.
Sisay said some people have wrongly claimed to be mudslide victims in the West African country that was already struggling to help all those impacted by the Ebola crisis in that killed about 3, and a civil war raging from until With the camps due to close on Nov. We have no idea what will happen next," said youth leader Hassan Turay who lived in Regent for 12 years and is waiting for his wife who was injured in the mudslide to be released from hospital. It wasn't a lot, but we were comfortable, I was content.
But now it's all gone, my life has gone backwards. Freetown, initially designed by colonial-era British administrators and home to more than one million people, has been plagued by heavy rains and flooding yearly since Its many slums and informal settlements are built high on mountain slopes, leaving tens of thousands of inhabitants vulnerable to death and displacement when the rains come.
