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Mayor of Freetown Speaks at Conference in Paris to Commemorate World Malaria Day

Leave a Comment / April 2019, Cleanest Zone Competition, Environment, FCC News, International Engagements, Mayor, Press Releases, Sanitation, Transform Freetown / Oliver Iyer

World Malaria Day is internationally observed on 25th April each year. This year, Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, will join leaders from countries with high prevalence of malaria, international partners and decision makers at the “Zero Malaria Starts with Me!” Conference in Paris, the host city of this year’s World Malaria Day. Mayor Aki-Sawyerr […]

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Freetown City Council Commences Speaker’s Sessions, a Transform Freetown Initiative

Leave a Comment / April 2019, FCC News, Job Creation / Oliver Iyer

On 9th April, 2019, Freetown City Council commenced its Speaker’s Sessions, a monthly initiative of the Job Creation (with Tourism Focus) Sector. The Speaker’s Sessions seeks to help young people interested in building their career in the tourism sector (students, trainees, junior staff etc) make informed decisions about their careers by having industry experts discuss

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Top Ten Zones in the Cleanest Zone Competition Revealed

Leave a Comment / April 2019, Cleanest Zone Competition, FCC News, Sanitation, Transform Freetown / Oliver Iyer

Over the last six months, Freetown City Council’s (FCC) Cleanest Zone Competition has been tracking improvement in sanitation in the 322 zones that make up Freetown. The Competition assesses communities’ efforts to clean and beautify their surroundings (especially planting flowers, trees, shrubs etc) and how innovative and sustainable their solutions to sanitation are. Six

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Freetown City Council Receives Portable Fecal Sludge Pump From Save The Children International

Leave a Comment / Environment, FCC News, March 2019, Sanitation, Transform Freetown / Oliver Iyer

On Friday, 22nd March 2019, Save the Children International, an international non-governmental organisation operating in Freetown, handed over a portable fecal sludge vacuum pump and waste collectors trained to operate it to the Freetown City Council, to support the Council’s efforts to improve the collection and disposal of liquid waste in the municipality. Mr

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Freetown City Council’s Partners Donate Shelter Kits to Fire Disaster Victims at Kroo Bay

Leave a Comment / FCC News, March 2019, Mayor, Urban Planning and Housing / Oliver Iyer

Throughout the weekend, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr and a small team from the Freetown City Council continued their efforts to resettle members of the Kroo Bay & Susan’s Bay Communities that were affected by fire disasters two weeks ago. On Saturday, the Mayor shared the Council’s short and long term plans to over 400 households

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

Leave a Comment / FCC News, Tourism, Transform Freetown / Oliver Iyer

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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Deputy Mayor of Freetown Facilitates Stakeholder Meeting about Relief for Victims of Kroo Bay Fire Disaster

Leave a Comment / FCC News, March 2019, Transform Freetown, Urban Planning and Housing / Oliver Iyer

Yesterday, the Deputy Mayor of the Freetown City Council, together with other senior officials, paid a a follow-up visit to the site of a fire incident that happened at Kroo Bay in the early hours of Monday morning. During the visit, the Deputy Mayor, Osman Thollo Koroma, facilitated the planning of a sustainable course of

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Mayor of Freetown Meets with Dr. Jane Goodall, the World’s Most Foremost Expert on Chimpanzees

Leave a Comment / Environment, FCC News, March 2019, Mayor, Transform Freetown / Oliver Iyer

Today, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr met with Dr. Jane Goodall, renowned anthropologist, environmentalist and U.N Messenger of Peace, in Freetown. The meeting started with a tree-planting exercise at the Taylor-Cummings Garden, next to the Cotton Tree. Five trees were planted by Her Worship the Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr; Dr. Jane Goodall; the Founder & Director of

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FCC Appeals to Residents against Burning Garbage after the National Cleaning Exercise

Leave a Comment / Environment, FCC News, March 2019, National Cleaning Exercise, Sanitation, Transform Freetown / Oliver Iyer

Freetown City Council staff are currently on major radio and television stations across the city to appeal to the public against the rampant burning of garbage after the national cleaning exercise. This practice poses serious problems for both the environment and the health of the residents of Freetown, contrary to what the cleaning exercise is

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German Minister of Foreign Affairs Pays Courtesy Call to the Mayor of Freetown

Leave a Comment / FCC News, February 2019, Transform Freetown / Oliver Iyer

As part of his one day state-visit to Sierra Leone, the German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, His Excellency, Heiko Maas, has paid a courtesy call to Her Worship the Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, OBE. The meeting happened on Monday 25th, February, 2019 at the Mayor’s Parlour at the Freetown City Council. The Mayor

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