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A huge tree that has stood over the capital of Sierra Leone for hundreds of years and symbolized the freedom of local residents fell in a heavy rain. The roughly 400-year-old “cotton tree” stands more than 200 feet tall and nearly 50 feet wide and has been Sierra Leone’s national symbol for decades.