The mayors of Boston, Paris, Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Quezon City, Philippines, made the cut for Forbes’ first Sustainability Leaders list. We spoke with two of them about their cities’ climate ...

Dear Freetonians, as we draw the curtains on 2025, I am deeply grateful for the unwavering support you have shown to the work of the Freetown City Council ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, with New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker: Two-year terms for mayor ...

A nationwide curfew has been declared in Sierra Leone after gunmen attacked the country's main and largest military barracks in Freetown, the capital city, raising fears of a breakdown of order amid a ...

Milo Gough has received funding from the AHRC through CHASE DTP. Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following century, it ...

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr walks up the stairs from her office in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to her car when she notices that the sky has darkened and is starting to open up. Tiny drops of rain fall. Within ...

Yesterday, Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr launched the Freetown Urban Green Design Competition, an initiative designed to generate innovative, practical, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. >> The Freetown (Sierra Leone)-New Haven (Connecticut) Sister Cities Program has won the Sister Cities International’s 2015 Innovation Award for humanitarian assistance for a city ...

BEIRA, Mozambique/WASHINGTON, June 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Mozambican fishmonger Manuel Machava hears the fishermen have landed a bumper catch of mackerel, crabs or shrimp, he has mixed ...

Few cities face the kind of challenges that Freetown faces. A city of 1 million and capital of the West African nation of Sierra Leone, Freetown endured a bloody civil war in the 1990s and continued ...