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Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, joined by FCC councillors and staff, community stakeholders and beneficiaries, launched the construction of the new Susan’s Bay Care Block on Thursday, 4 December. The initiative aims to ease the heavy burden of unpaid care work on women and girls in Freetown. The facility will centralise a range of essential services, […]

On Tuesday, 2 December, FCC brought together 60 market women, including market Chairladies, 20 each from the Kennedy Street, Portee, and Low Cost markets as part of ongoing community engagements to keep Freetown clean. This initiative was made possible with the support of The Carter Center through the Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign, implemented by

On Tuesday, 25 November 2025, Freetown City Council marked a major milestone in its Transform Freetown–Transforming Lives agenda with the official handover of the Kingtom (Bomeh) dumpsite by Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE to Sierra Forever Green Ltd, which will now assume management responsibilities, significantly reducing operational costs for the Council. This brief handover ceremony, attended

On Friday 21 November, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE inaugurated the newly completed mural paintings at the Kissy Road Cemetery. She expressed deep appreciation to The Carter Center for its continued support to Freetown City Council and highlighted the initiative’s focus on sanitation and access to information. Funded through The Carter Center’s Inform Women, Transform Lives

On Thursday, 20 November 2025, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, welcomed Prof. Kimberlyn Leary and Dr. Griffin Jones, researchers from the Good Services Lab at the Bloomberg Center for Cities, Harvard University. They are visiting Freetown as part of a research project studying the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund. The visit aims to deepen understanding of

On 12 November 2025, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, alongside Deputy Mayor Kweku Lisk, councillors, council staff, and representatives from GOAL Sierra Leone, SLRA, and SLRSA, officially welcomed Zurich Mayor Corine Mauch and her delegation, including UN-Habitat’s Regional Director for Africa, Oumar Sylla, to Freetown. The visit was part of the CHF 2.5 million City-to-City Urban

At a press conference on November 10, 2025, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, joined by Deputy Mayor Kweku Lisk Esq., Chief Councillor Zainab Conteh, and other councillors, voiced serious concerns over actions which are undermining the effective functioning of the Freetown City Council. The Mayor emphasised that while the FCC is not opposed to staff transfers,

Global initiative aims to protect residents and transform urban spaces to prepare for a hotter future Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (3 November 2025) – Freetown has today become a founding member of a new global coalition of cities taking urgent, coordinated action to tackle one of the most dangerous impacts of the climate crisis: extreme

On November 1, 2025, the Freetown City Council (FCC) met with stakeholders and residents of Susan’s Bay to discuss the Freetown Caring Project (Care Block), an initiative promoting social and economic development within the community. Led by FCC with partners CHANGE, WoLEAD, SLURC, and Kore Global, and funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

2/11/25 Her Worship Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, Mayor of Freetown and Co-Chair of C40 Cities, has arrived in Rio de Janeiro for the 2025 C40 World Mayors Summit. The event, co-hosted by Mayor Aki-Sawyerr Freetown Mayor and C40 Co-Chair, London Mayor and C40 Co-Chair Sadiq Khan alongside Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes, brings together leaders