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Freetown’s Cotton Tree lit up in green as it joins Ireland’s Global Greening initiative

Today, March 16, Freetown’s Cotton Tree lit up in green as it joins Ireland’s Global Greening initiative, which celebrates St. Patrick’s Day, for the second year in a row. As one of Sierra Leone’s oldest and most well-known landmarks, the Cotton Tree will turn green with over 500 world famous landmarks including New York’s Empire […]

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Freetown’s Cotton Tree Among the New Global Sites in Ireland’s Global Greening Lineup

On the tenth anniversary of the Global Greening Initiative, Freetown’s historic Cotton Tree, where freed slaves gathered on their return to Africa after the abolition of slavery, will be featured amongst hundreds of attractions from around the world. Every year, to mark St Patrick’s Day and promote Ireland’s tourism overseas, Tourism Ireland’s Global Greening Initiative

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Freetown City Council Pays Rent for Over 70 Persons with Disabilities Who Were Relocated from Cotton Tree

Today, a group of persons with disabilities thanked Mayor Aki-Sawyerr and Freetown City Council (FCC) for paying one year’s rent on behalf of 74 of them, after FCC had asked them to stop begging at Cotton Tree. The decision by FCC to stop persons with disabilities from begging around the Cotton Tree was taken back

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