11/2/2025 It was my pleasure to yesterday deliver a lecture to masters students and faculty at the Norman Foster Foundation Institute in Madrid for the 2025 Programme on Sustainable Cities. Titled “City Management without City Management Tools”, my lecture described the challenges of managing a city with a rapidly growing population in the absence of […]
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7/2/2025 Yesterday’s African Urban Heat Summit was a landmark event for Freetown! Co-hosted by Climate Resilience for All (CRA) the one day Summit brought together mayors, vice-governors and technical representatives from Monrovia and Paynesville (Liberia), Conakry (Guinea), Accra (Ghana), Kanifing (The Gambia), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), and Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), along with Local Council leaders from
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5/2/2025 Alongside the Deputy Mayor, Councilors, Chief Administrator and staff of Council it was a pleasure to receive Mayors and Vice Governors from across the region this morning. Delegates from Kanifing, Monrovia, Conakry, Accra, Ouagadougou, and Abidjan are in Freetown for the first ever African Urban Heat Summit. We also received the CEO, Board Chair
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30/1/2025 I was extremely happy to today commission a new facility block at the Tower Hill Municipal Primary School! Funded by Dr. Staneala Beckley and constructed in partnership with the Freetown City Council, the facility block contains two classrooms, a staff room and a resource center, all of which are fully furnished. The new facility
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26/1/2025 The escalating crisis of illegal substance abuse, particularly the Kush epidemic, poses a grave threat to our city and country. In April 2024, His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio declared substance abuse as a national emergency, but the devastating consequences of this epidemic are increasingly evident in Freetown. Youth are dropping out of schools
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23/1/2025 Over the course of the past two days, it has been a privilege for me to participate in a two day roundtable with key stakeholders involved in the building of resilient democratization processes in West Africa. Convened in Dakar by Wilton Park, the UK government’s expert in convening international policy dialogue, the roundtable brought
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20/1/2025 It was a pleasure to meet with H. E. Kim Pankyu, Korean Ambassador to Nigeria and Sierra Leone in Abuja this morning. I had the opportunity to share with the Ambassador our Transform Freetown – Transforming Lives Development Agenda and the possibility of developing a city-to-city partnership with a Korean city to strengthen ties
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18/1/2025 Today was a very special day in which the values of “service above self” and “community partnerships” came together in the commissioning of the DEC Primary School in remote Liroh Town, Kalian Chiefdom in Koinadugu District. The construction of the school was funded by Rotaract Club of Freetown-Sunset after one its members came across
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10/1/2025 It was a pleasure to meet with British High Commissioner H. E. Josephine Gauld UK in Sierra Leone this morning. We discussed a range of issues; identifying areas for greater collaboration to support #TransformFreetown #TransformingLives, as well as the progress being made with implementation of Resolutions 3 (the Tripartite Recommendations) and 4 (re political
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1/1/2025 Dear Freetonians, As 2024 comes to an end, I want to take this moment to appreciate the unwavering support you have given to me as your mayor and to the Freetown City Council (FCC); support which has been instrumental in enabling us to drive forward our Transform Freetown – Transforming Lives Development Agenda. Despite
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