"But they rented [the homes] out and came back to the slum," he said ... nowhere for it to go. Both Freetown's dump sites should have been closed in 2009." Sierra Leone mudslides: Rescue and ...

The BBC's Martin Patience, who is in Freetown, said workers there say they have been overwhelmed by the scale of this disaster. He described the rescue effort so far as "chaotic". Sierra Leone ...

Despite the challenges, people like Lamrana Bah still live in their own homes, even without running water. About a third of Freetown’s estimated 1.5 million residents live in the slums.