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Author name: Valena Macewen

FCC Provides Free Screening for World Diabetes Day

To mark World Diabetes Day, which is today November 14, Freetown City Council provided free screening for diabetes for 100 market women across four markets. The screenings, which happened on November 12 & 13, 2019, were carried out by Parene Healthcare, one of the partners in the Health Sector Working Group. The screening exercises took […]

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Mayor Aki-Sawyerr Meets with Former Mayor of Medellin to Discuss the Introduction of Cable Cars as a Mass Transit System

“Freetown City Council is working on plans to introduce a Cable Car system to the city” As a C40Cities member committed to combating climate change, Freetown City Council is already working on reducing emissions from waste by setting up a controlled and regulated waste collection and management system within its integrated solid and liquid waste

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The Cleaning Zone Competition is on!

The #CleanestZoneCompetition is on!!! Our assessors are in the 322 communities that make up our city, looking for the communities that are making the effort to improve cleanliness and beautification sustainably and innovatively. The communities that make the most improvement with whatever little they have will be rewarded with infrastructure development. All communities are qualified to be

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Tar Road Community Awarded New Feeder Road as Winners of First Edition CleanestZoneCompetition

Tar Road Community in the east of Freetown is getting a brand new feeder road from FCC as winners of the first edition of #CleanestZoneCompetition! If you want development like Tar Road, join your Councillors and mobilize your neighbors to keep your community clean. The community that makes the most improvement in cleanliness, beautification, sustainability and

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FCC Creates Jobs for 600 as Part of its Sustainable Waste Management Project

This morning, sixty youth groups, who are beneficiaries of Freetown City Council’s Sustainable Waste Management Project, received their tricycles and other sanitation tools, including shovels and wheelbarrows at the Council’s premises. The project was funded by the European Union (EU) and Freetown City Council is providing training, mentorship and monitoring to ensure that the 600

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Mayor Aki-Sawyerr Commemorates Late Victims of Ebola Epidemic at the Fourth Anniversary of the End of Ebola Outbreak

Today, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr joined the Association of Ebola Survivors at the Kingtom Cemetary for a short somber service to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the End of Ebola Outbreak Declaration.    

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Ambassador of Republic of Ireland Pays a Courtesy Call to Mayor Aki-Sawyerr

This morning, recently appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland to Sierra Leone, Lesley Ní Bhriaian, paid a courtesy call to Mayor Aki-Sawyerr at the Mayor’s Parlour in Freetown. During the visit, the Mayor and the Ambassador discussed the support that Irish Aid has already given Freetown City Council, which has been critical in the

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The Embassy of China Donates Solar Street Lights to FCC’s Cleanest Zone Competition

Today, a delegation from the Embassy of China to Sierra Leone handed over 20-solar street lights and several smaller indoor and outdoor solar lights to Freetown City Council (FCC). The items were presented to the Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr at the Mayor’s Parlour in the presence of Chief Administrator, councillors and staff of FCC.  The donation

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FCC Creates Jobs and Improves Sanitation by Helping Youth Start Waste Collection Enterprises

Today, International Organization for Migration (IOM) handed 20 tricycles, 2 motorbikes and other tools to FCC, to help the Council achieve its target of having 60% of solid and liquid waste safely collected, managed and disposed of by 2022. IOM, as part of its efforts to reduce irregular migration by boosting youth entrepreneurship, supported Council’s

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Newly Appointed British High Commissioner Pays Mayor of Freetown A Courtesy Call

The newly appointed British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Simon Mustard, together with the Head and Deputy Head of DfID (SL), Kobi Bentley and Sandy Baldwin, paid a courtesy call to Mayor Aki-Sawyerr earlier today. They had a lighthearted chat, which spanned various areas; from the Mayor’s priorities over the next three months to an

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