Foul-smelling brown seaweed has for weeks choked the coastline of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, destroying fishing nets, clogging boat engines and disrupting tourism in a country otherwise known for its white-sand beaches.
The West African state has experienced the phenomenon several times in the past, but local people say the problem seems far worse this year.
“There is an unprecedented deposit this year,” Amidu Kamara, a fisherman…