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The Freetown Flood Disaster Emergency Appeal

August 21, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 August 2017 The Sierra Leone Telegraph has launched an Emergency Appeal to raise at least £50,000 to help victims of the flood disaster which took place on the 13th and 14th of August 2017 in Freetown.  So far – in just one week, we have raised [Read More]

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Freetown floods disaster – Father of the nation and crocodile tears

August 20, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Dr Julius Spencer Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2017 I have not expressed my views on national events for quite a while, but today I cannot but say something. For the past days, I have been quite tearful. In other words, I feel like crying a lot. I have not [Read More]

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Sierra Leone says goodbye to over 300 flood disaster victims as president Koroma weeps

August 19, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2017 Few in Sierra Leone and across the world, could hold back their tears on Thursday, 17th August, 2017 as hundreds of those killed by the landslide which took place in Freetown on the 13th and 14th of August were taken to their final place [Read More]

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The gods are not to blame – an ode to the Freetown flood victims

August 19, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2017 With fist of fury, clenched in despair, I raised my hands to heaven in supplication. With teary eyes and swollen cheeks, we ask for divine explanation. In cries of abandonment, for what has befallen us, in our time of need. In a [Read More]

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The Freetown Flood Disaster Emergency Appeal

August 18, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 August 2017 The Sierra Leone Telegraph has launched an Emergency Appeal to raise at least £50,000 to help victims of the flood disaster which took place on the 13th and 14th of August 2017 in Freetown.  So far – in just four days, we have raised [Read More]

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Sierra Leone – nemesis – oh nemesis

August 15, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Puawui – Dr. Sama Banya Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2017 Just before the publication of my autobiography “Looking back – My Life And Times” I stopped writing; I stopped active political activities except that I would go to SLPP headquarters and pour libation to the founding Fathers and past [Read More]

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Sierra Leone faces serious risk of cholera and typhoid outbreak

August 15, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2017: Following the disastrous event of the mudslide and floods in Freetown on 14 August 2017 wherein over 300 people have died, with a possibility of the death toll rising and over two thousand (2000) rendered homeless, [Read More]

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Another sad chapter in the history of Sierra Leone

August 15, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Bishop J. Archibald Cole Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2017 We have today witnessed another sad chapter in the history of our beloved nation, Sierra Leone. This gruesome flooding and mudslide event has only awakened old wounds. Old wounds such as the January 6 tragedy, old wounds such as the [Read More]

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Freetown Flood Disaster Emergency Appeal

August 14, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2017 The Sierra Leone Telegraph has launched an Emergency Appeal to raise at least £50,000 to help victims of the flooding disaster which happened today 14th August 2017 in Freetown, through the Just Giving Crowd Funding Website. Please follow this link to make a donation: [Read More]

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