Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr: The Mayor of Freetown's 1st 100 days explained.

Freetown has enormous potential as a city but faces severe challenges
across all sectors and is at an increased risk of natural disasters
Freetown has over 1 million residents,
and with current growth rate of 4.2%
p.a., it is projected to have 2 million
residents by 2028
The unique ecological, aesthetics
and recreational resources of the
natural environment of Freetown
are extraordinarily high, but are
threatened and are at risk of loss
The expansion of the footprint
or built-up area beyond
Freetown’s municipal
boundaries started in 2000s, and
has expanded by almost by a
third.
About 95% of Freetown’s population not
served by the water supply utility; the entire
city outside the Central Business District
served by septic tanks, pit and bucket
latrines; urban mobility severely impaired by
poor infrastructure, poor management of
road space, inadequate public transport and
a weak institutional and regulatory
framework
The absence of
With 40 percent of Sierra
Leone’s urban population,
Freetown is host to the
national government’s
legislative, executive and
judicial branches as well as
foreign embassies and
consulates
The importance of Freetown to Sierra Leone’s economy is clear, with the city
creating 30% of the country’s GDP despite housing only 15% of its population
and being located on less than 0.5% of the national land mass
an adequate
waste
management
system negatively
impacts residents’
health and
environmental
sustainability