{"id":2645,"date":"2017-08-16T01:26:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T23:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/16\/sierra-leone-mudslide-president-calls-for-urgent-help-as-search-continues\/"},"modified":"2017-08-16T01:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T23:26:12","slug":"sierra-leone-mudslide-president-calls-for-urgent-help-as-search-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone mudslide: president calls for urgent help as search continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds feared dead, thousands still missing and many more left homeless after mud engulfs houses near the capital, FreetownSierra Leone\u2019s president has appealed for urgent help to support the thousands of people affected by a devastating mudslide on the outskirts of the country\u2019s capital.A national emergency has been declared after the city suffered heavy flooding, thought to be the worst in Africa over the past two decades. Freetown\u2019s mayor, Sam Gibson, said 270 corpses had been recovered and were \u201cbeing prepared for burial\u201d, while the chief coroner told Reuters that nearly 400 bodies had been found. Estimates of the numbers missing vary: the Red Cross reported that 600 people have not been traced, while the country\u2019s interior minister has said thousands are unaccounted for. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2017\/aug\/15\/sierra-leone-mudslide-flooding-freetown-national-emergency\" target=\"_blank\">Sierra Leone mudslide: president calls for urgent help as search continues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds feared dead, thousands still missing and many more left homeless after mud engulfs houses near the capital, FreetownSierra Leone\u2019s president has appealed for urgent help to support the thousands of people affected by a devastating mudslide on the outskirts of the country\u2019s capital.A national emergency has been declared after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}