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Author name: Valena Macewen

Global cities unite to tackle gender inequality

London, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Freetown, Mexico City and Tokyo found first-of-its-kindnetwork of cities in support of gender equity. The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, today unveiled the capital as a co-foundingmember of a ground-breaking international network of cities committed to advancing genderequality. ‘CHANGE’ (City Hub And Network for Gender Equity) will see Freetown partner with Los […]

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FCC and WARD C sign MOU of Collaboration and Partnership in Planning the Freetown Peninsula Area

Yesterday, Wednesday 16th September, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr of Freetown City Council (FCC) and Chairman Kasho J Holland Cole Western Area District Council (WARD-C) officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding to agree to work together in specified areas of urban planning and development, and service delivery. The signing took place at the WARD-C conference hall at

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FCC Conducts Public Space Clean Up as we Continue to Work to Keep Freetown Clean

If you passed by Congo Cross Bridge today, you would have seen our sanitation team cleaning the environs, particularly the illegal dumpsite that had been created there. Our team, which comprised the Councillors of the Sanitation committee, sanitary inspectors, MET police tricycle youth groups and public space cleaning monitors, also engaged the surrounding informal community

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FCC Continues Community Engagement and Enforcement on Sanitation

Today, our sanitation teams made up of sanitary inspectors, tricycle operators and Metropolitan Officers, were in the east of the city engaging traders and shop owners on the need to keep their surroundings clean. The teams visited shops and petty traders between Up Gun and Ferry Junction, along Bai Bureh Road, which is probably the

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