{"id":345608,"date":"2017-08-17T10:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T10:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=345608"},"modified":"2017-08-17T10:03:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T10:03:20","slug":"were-sending-sierra-leone-relief-items-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/were-sending-sierra-leone-relief-items-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re sending Sierra Leone relief items \u2013 Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana President, Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government is in the process of sending relief items to Sierra Leone following a tragic mudslide and flooding disaster that has claimed many lives in the West African country.<\/p>\n<p>Saddened by the development Akufo-Addo took to his Twitter handle to make the announcement and expressed his condolences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment is in the process of sending relief items to Sierra Leone to aid in the recovery process,\u201d he tweeted on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I called President Ernest Bai Koroma on Tuesday to express my and the condolences of Ghanaians &#8230; (1\/3)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAkufoAddo\/status\/898116546438062080\">August 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8230; on the tragic loss of lives and property following Monday&#8217;s mudslide in Sierra Leone. (2\/3)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAkufoAddo\/status\/898116638008111104\">August 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I called President Ernest Bai Koroma on Tuesday to express my and the condolences of Ghanaians &#8230; (1\/3)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAkufoAddo\/status\/898116546438062080\">August 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nHealth Officials in <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/17\/burials-for-sierra-leone-mudslide-victims\/\"><strong>Sierra Leone<\/strong><\/a><\/span> say nearly half of the 400 people known to have died in a mudslide and flooding that occurred at the outskirt of the country\u2019s capital Freetown have already been buried.<\/p>\n<p>About 600 people are said to be still missing.<\/p>\n<p>The Sierra Leonean government subsequently postponed the mass burial of the dead bodies to Thursday to allow relatives to identify their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4,000 lives claimed in Ebola outbreak, 50,000 in civil war<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This development comes on the back of the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus which claimed the lives of nearly 4,000 people in Sierra Leone in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that about 50,000 people also died during a decade long civil war in that country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana President, Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government is in the process of sending relief items to Sierra Leone following a tragic mudslide and flooding disaster that has claimed many lives in the West African country. 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