Sierra Leone: Elephants On the Rampage in East of Sierra Leone

12 August 2004
The Independent (Freetown)

Freetown — Over 300 people have been displaced in ten villages and several others wounded in Gorama Mende chiefdom in Kenema District over the past few weeks.

According to Alice Sefoi, a newly elected district councilor in the chiefdom, wild elephants from the Gola Forest in the east of the country, have destroyed crops, houses and killed two people in Kpedema and Godama in the Kenema District, the eastern administrative headquarter of the country..

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