Tag Archives: mudslides

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | More than 30 people are feared dead in the fresh mudslides that hit Bududa district in Eastern Uganda yesterday afternoon. The mudslides affected the two villages of Namasa and Naposhi, all in Bushika sub-county, Bududa district. Gerald Fungo, the chairman of Bumasa village says …

Freetown, Sierra Leone | AFP | At least 312 people were killed and more than 2,000 left homeless on Monday when heavy flooding hit Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown, leaving excavators to pull bodies from rubble and overwhelming the city’s morgues. An AFP journalist saw several homes submerged in Regent village, …