September 2024

9/9/2024 At the invitation of the All-People’s Congress (APC) Diaspora 6th Region Women’s Congress, led by comrade Madam Cassandra Kenny, Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, on 7th September 2024, joined the APC Diaspora 6th Region Women’s Congress Launch and Achievement Awards Dinner. The inspirational event, held in Lanham, Maryland, USA, was attended by APC Women’s […]

9/9/2024 At the invitation of the All-People’s Congress (APC) Diaspora 6th Region Women’s Congress, led by comrade Madam Cassandra Kenny, Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, on 7th September 2024, joined the APC Diaspora 6th Region Women’s Congress Launch and Achievement Awards Dinner. The inspirational event, held in Lanham, Maryland, USA, was attended by APC Women’s

26/8/2024 Always a pleasure and a privilege to spend time at the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development with H.E. Mdme Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and #AmujaeSisters! Lovely to catch up with Riva Levinson. #SundayMorningFlow

25/8/2024 It’s a wrap!! Freetown City Council has completed a three-day tree giveaway of 25,000 trees. We started at Lumley Beach on Friday where we planted 600 trees. On Saturday and Sunday, we had teams that went door-to-door to distribute trees to households that had pre-registered for trees. We also had teams at 10 locations

6/8/2024 Yesterday it was my pleasure to symbolically present cheques to the 9 winners of the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund, launched in May 2024 by Freetown City Council, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). The objective of the Fund is to empower young leaders committed to addressing the climate crisis.

2/8/2024 As the heavy rains continue and the risk of significant coastal flooding increases, I engaged members of the Kroo Bay community today. We will be demolishing large structures primarily built by “landlords” on illegal “banking” and replacing them with 75,000 mangroves. The “banking” is created from waste deposits which pollute the ocean and end

29/7/2024 I attended an extremely constructive meeting today chaired by the Minister of Environment  , with the Minister of Local Government And Community Relations, Deputy Minister of Lands, National Security Coordinator  of the ONS, NDMA, SLRA, Chairman of the Western Area Rural District.   All the stakeholders presented their perspectives on the reasons for the recent

21/7/2024 Out in the field with Freetown City Council Chairman of Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Cllr Unisa Kamara and Chief Administrator Raman Tom Farmar. Seeing first-hand the positive impact of flood mitigation activities of FCC over the past 8 weeks. (Flood mitigation activities continued at Abacha Street today even in the rain). Localized

17/7/2024 It was an honor to speak today at the 25th-anniversary celebrations of Afrobarometer, a pan-African, non-partisan survey research network that conducts public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy, and society. With a vision for a world in which Africa’s development is anchored in the realities and aspirations of its people, Afrobarometer is the

10/7/2024 Freetown City Council (FCC) in partnership with UNCDF, ILO, ILRAJ, WANEP and FEDURP has been implementing the Women for Water and Peace Project (W4WP) with funding from the UN Peacebuilding Fund. This involves the construction of 25 solar powered boreholes (part of the ongoing installation of 65 boreholes across Freetown) in communities in Aberdeen,