The Cotton Tree was considered Sierra Leone's most important landmark and a symbol of freedom Witnesses said the tree fell around 9:40pm on Wednesday evening during a rainstorm President Julius ...

Standing 70 meters tall and 15 meters wide, the roughly 400 year-old tree has been Sierra Leone's national symbol for decades. It has appeared on bank notes, woven into lullabies and visited by ...

It stood for centuries as a towering symbol of freedom, but was brought crashing down this week by torrential rain. Sierra Leone has been dealt a "great loss," the country's leader said Thursday ...

“For centuries it has been a proud emblem of our nation, a symbol of a nation that has grown to provide shelter for many,” he said in a statement. The tree has appeared on Sierra Leone’s ...

A tree that has towered over Sierra Leone for centuries and symbolised ... It was regarded as a symbol of liberty and freedom by early settlers. ‘We will have something at the same spot that ...

A giant tree that towered over Sierra Leone’s capital for centuries and ... “It was regarded as a symbol of liberty and freedom by early settlers,” the president wrote on Twitter.

FREETOWN :A giant tree that towered over Sierra Leone's capital for centuries and ... "It was regarded as a symbol of liberty and freedom by early settlers," the president wrote on Twitter.

In the days after the felling of the huge cotton tree, the symbol of capital city Freetown ... Joseph Kaifala, the head of Sierra Leone’s Centre for Memory and Reparations, called the cotton ...

He described it as a "great loss to the nation". He said the tree was a symbol of liberty for early settlers. It also appears on Sierra Leone banknotes. But some Christians hailed its demise ...

Standing 70 meters tall and 15 meters wide, the roughly 400 year-old tree has been Sierra Leone’s national symbol for decades. It has appeared on bank notes, woven into lullabies and visited by ...