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Freetown City Council Hosts Delegation From the Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation to Explore Financing Mechanisms to Support Freetown’s Water Sector

This week, Freetown City Council is hosting a delegation from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and their Partners, Geneva Water Hub & UN Capital Development Fund. The delegation’s visit aims to continue and concretise the discussions with Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr and Freetown City Council, around city twinning and blended finance partnerships, particularly for […]

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Request for Proposal: Municipal Property Tax Collection Agency Services

Issue date 30th May, 2019 REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL MUNICIPAL PROPERTY TAX COLLECTION AGENCY SERVICES   The Freetown City Council (FCC) is requesting proposals from professional collection agencies (Service Provider) to provide collection enforcement services to facilitate payments on current and delinquent domestic and commercial municipal taxes owed to the Freetown City Council.  The FCC needs

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FCC Leads Disaster Recovery Efforts at Kroo Bay & Susan’s Bay Communities in Collaboration with ONS, Concern Worldwide, CRS, CARITAS and WHH

On March 4th and 7th respectively, fire gripped the Kroo Bay and Susan’s Bay communities, completing or partially destroying properties and rendering hundreds of residents homeless. The Freetown City Council (FCC), together with numerous partners, has worked with both communities to rebuild homes destroyed and to restore households that were affected, as an immediate response

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One Year On: Mayor Aki-Sawyerr’s Efforts to #TransformFreetown

11th May 2019 marks one year since Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr was sworn into office as the Mayor of Freetown. Her campaign promise of transformation encompassed three focus areas – “for wi community, for wi progress, for wi Fritong”. Through a comprehensive consultation exercise with experience, knowledge and expertise drawn in from all quarters, these commitments have

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Mayor of Freetown Speaks at Conference in Paris to Commemorate World Malaria Day

World Malaria Day is internationally observed on 25th April each year. This year, Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, will join leaders from countries with high prevalence of malaria, international partners and decision makers at the “Zero Malaria Starts with Me!” Conference in Paris, the host city of this year’s World Malaria Day. Mayor Aki-Sawyerr

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Press Release: Freetown & Charleston Express Interest in City-Twinning Relationship

To culminate a visit to Sierra Leone by Mr Michael Boulware Moore, the President and CEO of the International African American Museum (IAAM), the cities of Freetown and Charleston have expressed a significant interest in moving toward creating a twinning relationship. Mr Moore and his team from the IAAM are paying a visit to Sierra

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FREETOWN CITY COUNCIL LAUNCHES SIERRA LEONE’S FIRST PHONE-BASED TAX COLLECTION SYSTEM Pay Your Local Tax In Five Short Steps Using Africell Mobile Money Freetown, 26th October 2018 — The Freetown City Council (FCC), in partnership with Africell (Sierra Leone), has developed a new and improved system for tax revenue collection, which will be launched on

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THE MAYOR OF FREETOWN TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL PARLIAMENT OF MAYORS SUMMIT 2018 Freetown, 24th October 2018— The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, will be one of nearly 100 mayors from around the world to take part in the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM) annual summit in Bristol, UK, from the 21-23 October,

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FREETOWN CITY COUNCIL LAUNCHES CLEANEST ZONE IN FREETOWN COMPETITION Freetown, 26th October 2018— In a bid to sustain the gains made by the flood mitigation plan, The Freetown City Council (FCC) on the 10th October 2018 launched its cleanest zone in Freetown competition (as one of the initiatives under the umbrella of the Sanitation Working

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The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, speaks at the World Meeting of Families in Dublin, Ireland

Freetown – 22nd August, 2018 – The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, will be speaking on a panel at the World Meeting of Families on Thursday 23rd August, 2018 on the topic: Faith, Family and Development, The Witness of Women in Leadership’ in the Irish capital, Dublin. Over 37,000 people from around the world are

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