Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Sierra Leone Also Declares 3-Day Mourning

Sources: Pravda and Sierra Leone public holidays. Sierra Leone President, Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, declared three days of national mourning for the dead, following a weekend helicopter crash that killed 22 people, most of them Togolese. As reported in our post of June 4, Togo had also declared a 3-day period of mourning yesterday.