In pictures: Sierra Leone slum

Abdul Sankoh, 38, lives in Kroo Bay with his wife and eight children.

To scrape a living he sells bags of coal when he can and makes 80 US cents per bag. He might sell 100 bags in three weeks.

“I live here because I have no money,” he says about his panbody house, made from metal wrapped around sticks dug into the ground.

“I’m penniless. I’m not happy about living here because the situation is so very bad. If I could move I would.”