Osioriame Thomas

My first meeting with the new British High Commissioner was engaging and very special – we met on the RFA Lyme Bay! It was a pleasure to also engage and exchange ideas with the Minister of Fisheries Hon Princess Dugbah. Among many topics related to the ocean, ports and fishing, we discussed the impact of […]

Like most Saturdays, yesterday was a very busy day!! It started with a meeting with the German Ambassador and the German Foreign Office Director for Sub-Saharan Africa. Then I spoke to about 100 pupils from Leone Preparatory School about the history of Freetown City Council. Next I attended the graduation ceremony of young women who

Great start to the day at Lumley Beach for the European Union in Sierra Leone funded beach cleanup. I extend my thanks to EU Ambassador H.E. Jacek Jankowski for this annual awareness raising exercise that reminds Freetonians that we all have a responsibility to dispose of our waste appropriately and not to create “banking” along

Today I was absolutely thrilled to commission the  Kroo Bay Municipal  Primary School, constructed with funding from Sustain for Life and with support from Freetown City Council. The project was implemented by the #SierraLeoneAutisticSociety. The school is built on the site of a former community center, where a single room had previously served as a

19/10/2024 I have huge respect and admiration for our community based teams who are planting mangroves as part of #FreetownTheTreeTown! Accompanied by Cllr Sheku Deen Mansaray, I joined the teams of women and youth in Ojuku community today who have planted 80,740 mangroves over the past 12 days. It is difficult work wading into the

16/10/2024 I was humbled and honored to receive the 2024 German Africa Award from Bärbel Bas, President of the Bundestag, Germany’s Parliament, during an uplifting and beautiful ceremony in Berlin this evening. The German Africa Foundation has since 1993, annually honored one individual from Africa who is considered to have made exceptional contributions to democracy,

8/10/2024 I was really pleased to present the Freetown Cable Car Feasibility Study report to Vice President H.E. Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh this morning. Conducted over a 24 month period, the detailed multidimensional Feasibility Study was funded by C40 Cities Finance Facility which in turn is funded by the German, French, United Kingdom and United

5/10/2024 I am pleased to have just completed the one-year African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI) programme and to have been able to attend the final in-person convening in Nairobi this week. A partnership between Big Win Philanthropy, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the African Centre for Cities (ACC) located at the University of Cape Town, this unique

25/9/2024 Yesterday was another full and constructive day! I met with former Irish President HE Mary Robinson, participated in a roundtable and a panel discussion on migration, spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative among other engagements. All my engagements provide opportunities to build networks of support for our climate interventions for #TransformFreetown #TransformingLives

23/9/2024 As part of my engagements at the UNGA Summit of the Future in New York, I participated in a high-level panel meeting with the Africa- Europe Women’s Leaders Network on the importance of multilateral action and financing in achieving global goals. Other women at the meeting were the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed,