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 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.

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 ...