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 ...

The aim was to increase the city’s own source revenue by improving fairness, transparency, and compliance while modernising ...

Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, with New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker: Two-year terms for mayor are “crazy!” Credit: Thomas Breen photo The mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, traveled across an ocean ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Property taxes remain one of the most underperforming sources of revenue for urban development across Africa. One reason is that they are often opposed by the economic elites and large property owners ...