Search and rescue teams near a massive mudslide site at Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo: AFP
The magnitude of damage caused by a mudslide and floods that killed hundreds of people in Sierra Leone was due to the government's failure to implement housing and environmental policies, Amnesty International said Thursday.
While flooding is a natural disaster, the scale of the human tragedy in the country’s capital of Freetown is, sadly, very much man-made, the human rights group's deputy director of global issues, Makmid Kamara, said in a statement.
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