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Sombre Ceremony In Sierra Leone for Mudslides Victims
Sierra Leone's president leads mourners at mass burial for mudslides victims
President Ernest Bai Koroma is accompanied by Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and religious leaders as many of those killed in the mudslides in Freetown are laid to rest.
Plus the UN says more than one million refugees have fled civil war in South Sudan for Uganda, and a new book celebrates traditional African foods.
(Image: Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma (2nd L, with glasses) and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (C) attend funeral for mudslide victims. Credit: AFP)
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