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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Minute: On Sierra Leone's mudslides

Several hundred people were killed when a mudslide buried houses near the Sierra Leone capital Freetown. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa Deputy Editor Josephine Hazeley is from the country. She tells ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Minute about the conditions there and why thousands of people live in precarious homes that are vulnerable to heavy rainfall.

Picture: Residents walk through floodwater in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, August 14, Credit: Saidu Bah/AFP/Getty Images

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