Mass Graves Beckon for Sierra Leone's Homeless and Destitute Dead

For the past 12 years, a group of two dozen volunteers calling themselves the Death and Destitute Organisation have used their own resources to collect and bury unidentified dead bodies.

During the Ebola crisis, the country also lost nearly 4,000 people.

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