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Caritas Sierra Leone Seeking “speedy support to save lives” Following Slum Inferno

Oct 4, 2021

The development and humanitarian arm of the Catholic Bishops in Sierra Leone is calling on the people of God in the West African nation to offer aid to dwellers of Kroo Bay slum on the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, whose houses were razed in an inferno last month. 

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