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 ...

Sierra Leone has been in the throes of its months ... According to ancient Maya, the kapok tree was the symbol of the universe. Its roots dug into the underworld and its branches reached the ...

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.

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 ...