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 mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, traveled across an ocean to her home’s “sister city” in New Haven to promote cross-continent comity, a shared history of liberation, green energy consciousness, ...

In Freetown, Sierra Leone, sanitation challenges and risks are enormous, complex, and recurring. The risks are multi-layered and city-wide, including flooding, water contamination and the spread of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sierra Leone's capital Freetown must tackle deforestation, poor housing and decrepit drainage if it is to prevent the next disaster, its mayor said one year after a devastating mudslide killed an ...

Travel direction from Freetown to New York City is and direction from New York City to Freetown is The map below shows the location of Freetown and New York City. The blue line represents the straight ...

Freetown is a city squeezing itself into the small space between the mountains and the sea, in a country with the highest annual rainfall in Africa. In August - the height of the rainy season - an ...

A different kind of freedom led Jim Cramer to a community in Greenville County where freed slaves settled years ago. Cramer was escaping homelessness in 2001, when a former executive director of the ...