On Saturday, 20 December 2025, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, accompanied by councillors and staff of the Freetown City Council (FCC), toured six project ...

December 2025: In presenting the 2026 Budget Statement to Parliament, the Minister of Finance described it as a “pro-poor and pro-people budget”.

December 2025: As global attention cautiously drifts back to West Africa, a troubling narrative is beginning to take shape. Shifts in rhetoric ...

December 2025: The dirty secret of development is that it is never neutral, and it is never painless. Every serious attempt at national ...

Côte d’Ivoire has taken an additional important step toward guaranteeing access to clean water with the inauguration of the urban water supply system for ...

Yango Group, a global tech company, has announced the next chapter of its Yango Fellowship; a program designed to unlock the potential of STEM talent ...

Decentralization was once hailed as one of Sierra Leone’s most progressive governance reforms, a deliberate strategy to bring ...

December 2025: A student holding an offer of admission to a U.S. university is now wondering whether years of preparation still count. By a way ...

On Wednesday 17 December, Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, joined young people from across Africa at the Dream Model United ...

December 2025: On the humid Atlantic edge of Accra, where the Gulf of Guinea exhales history into the present, Africa once again gathered to ...

Climate action isn’t just about protecting the environment, it’s also a pathway to jobs, says Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr. In Sierra Leone, young ...

December 2025: Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to get people to adapt to change, even on the most basic issues? I have seen firsthand ...