Overall Orange alert Flood
in Sierra Leone

Event summary

This flood can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1000127
Glide number: 2017-000109
Death: 493
Displaced: -
Countries: Sierra Leone
From - To 14 Aug - 15 Aug

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 128 | About casualties: 37 | Last hour: 0

Sierra Leone: Israel donates medical relief supplies for flood and mud ... Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:24:00 +0200.

The Israeli Government has through the Office of the First Lady Mrs. Sia Nyama Koroma, donated some medical relief supplies, including 5 cartoons of septrin suspension, 11 cartoons azithromycin tabs, 5 cartoons ciprofloxacin, 3 cartoons sep
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Are big storms proof of climate change? Maybe notFri, 15 Sep 2017 10:55:00 +0200.

Why me? is the question victims of Nature's random fury naturally ask. With vast stretches of the southern US still reeling from the devastation brought by two monster storms, an editorial in the medical journal The Lancethelps put things i
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Sierra Leone: PWJ assessing the landslide/flood affected communities i ... Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:14:00 +0200.

On the 14th August, 2017 at about 6:45 am, after days of heavy rain, a massive mudslide and floods occurred in Regent community in Freetown; the nation’s capital. The magnitude of the mudslide was unimaginable and has caused untold sufferin
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Al menos 10 muertos, inundaciones y edificios en ruinas: así quedó Cub ... Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:14:00 +0200.

El “cuarto” de Eduardo fue lo que le tocó después del divorcio y la permuta de su apartamento en la zona 9 de Alamar hace siete años. Cuando pasó el huracán, él no estaba allí, sino en casa de una prima y una sobrina. A su cuarto no puede e
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), NASA (7), INFORM (1), (1),