Rescue personnel had discovered 499 dead bodies as of August 20, since a devastating landslide hit near the Sierra Leone capital Freetown on August 14, the city's chief coroner said. Humanitarian ...

intense rains brought devastation to one Sierra Madre family, when Jon Henderson and his 9-year-old son Matt Henderson were both killed in a catastrophic flash flood. In an interview with ABC7 ...

RUMMAGING in the darkness of a tiny mud and thatch home in eastern Sierra Leone, ecologist James Koninga ... of a group of researchers tracking the deadly Lassa fever, a viral haemorrhagic illness ...