Residents, believed to number between 600 and 1,000, lay buried beneath the mudslide. This is when the magnitude of the disaster dawned on me. The calls kept coming. Now people were telling me ...
The vulnerability of Sierra Leone makes any reference to “natural” disasters at best ironic, and at worst insulting. Poverty is not “natural”, and the overcrowding into poor housing that it causes is ...
A mudslide in Tiruvannamalai left seven people feared trapped amid heavy rains. Rescue operations by a 30-member NDRF team are underway, employing hydraulic lifts. Official updates on the situation ...