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Today, Saturday 24 January, FCC carried out a market cleaning exercise at Portee Market as part of the #DortiMusGo campaign to keep Freetown cleaner. The activity, attended by Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, Councillor Zainab Conteh, market women, and FCC-approved waste service provider, also forms part of The Carter Center’s Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign promoting […]

On Tuesday, 6 January 2026, Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr launched the Freetown Urban Green Design Competition, an initiative designed to generate innovative, practical, and climate-resilient solutions that introduce more greenery into Freetown’s Central Business District. The competition forms part of the city’s broader urban regeneration efforts under the Freetown–Zurich City-to-City Cooperation. Key features of the

On Saturday, 20 December 2025, Her Worship Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, accompanied by councillors and staff of the Freetown City Council (FCC), toured six (6) project sites implemented by grantees of the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund. The visit showcased innovative, youth-led initiatives aimed at addressing the climate change crisis. At Kroo Town Road Market,

On Wednesday 17 December, Her Worship the Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, joined young people from across Africa at the Dream Model United Nations Conference 2025, hosted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Freetown. The conference brought together forward-thinking youth actively engaged in diplomacy, leadership, and global problem-solving, whose energy and commitment to

With support from The Carter Center’s Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign, the Freetown City Council Saturday 6 December joined over 25 market women at the Low Cost Market for a successful Clean Market Day led by Councillor Hakiratu Maxwell Caulker. These women showed remarkable commitment proving that community transformation starts with those who care the

On Thursday, 4 December 2025, the Vice Chairperson of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Zheng Hong, met with Her Worship the Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE. With Freetown and Hefei-the capital city of Anhui Province enjoying a sister-city relationship established in 1984, the meeting created an opportunity

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