{"id":1714,"date":"2022-01-25T17:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/commonwealth-secretary-general-patricia-scotland-visits-sierra-leone"},"modified":"2022-01-25T17:46:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:46:25","slug":"commonwealth-secretary-general-patricia-scotland-visits-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/commonwealth-secretary-general-patricia-scotland-visits-sierra-leone","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland visits Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Baroness Scotland, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth was in Freetown yesterday, where she held discussions with Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr about the outstanding work of the Mayor and staff at the Freetown City Council in transforming the City.<br \/>\nSpeaking after her meeting with the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr said: \u201cToday I had the pleasure of meeting Baroness Patricia Scotland, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and her delegation. We discussed our shared commitment to foster collaboration as we turn aspirations into action. I had the opportunity to share #TransformFreetown highlights with her and learn about the amazing work she is doing to provide critical open-source data to Commonwealth member states.\u201d<br \/>\nBaroness Scotland\u2019s delegation included Dr Morie Manyeh, High Commissioner of Sierra Leone to the UK; Mr Louis Franceschi and representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Also present at the meeting were Councillor Zainab Conteh, Chairperson of the FCC Foreign Affairs and Protocol Committee; Festus Kallay, Chief Administrator; Peter Koroma, Deputy Chief Administrator; Violet Kargbo, Foreign Affairs and Protocol Officer; and Manja Kargbo, Mayor\u2019s Delivery Unit Team Lead.<br \/>\nBaroness Patricia Scotland also visited Sierra Leone\u2019s Minister of Finance, Dennis Vandi and the Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Dr. Francis Kai-Kai at the Ministry of Finance in Freetown.<br \/>\nSecretary-General Scotland commended President Bio for his holistic vision for the country and spoke of the Commonwealth Secretariat\u2019s support in promoting prosperity, development, democracy and peace.<br \/>\nShe also spoke about the role played by the Ministry of Finance in helping to launch the Commonwealth Secretariat\u2019s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Governance study last year, which examined the ERM implementation in six Commonwealth countries namely: Sierra Leone, Botswana, Ghana, The Gambia, Kenya and Eswatini.<br \/>\nBaroness Scotland highlighted various policy areas where the Commonwealth could deepen its cooperation with Sierra Leone, especially in managing public debt, human resource capacity building, data analytics and creating better trade opportunities.<br \/>\nMinister of Finance, Dennis Vandi highlighted the achievements of his ministry in working with the Commonwealth.<br \/>\nMinister of Planning and Economic Development, Dr. Francis Kai-Kai thanked the Commonwealth Secretariat for their support in providing the necessary expertise in areas that are critical to the development of the country.<br \/>\nMinister Kai-Kai recommended that the Commonwealth Secretariat re-establishes the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation (CFTC) to improve its visibility, as well as coordination of all commonwealth assistance support.<br \/>\nHe assured the Secretary-General that Sierra Leone, under the leadership of President Bio will continue to uphold and promote the values and principles of the Commonwealth, which provide a platform and an avenue in presenting a common front in dealing with the global challenges on climate change, peace, security, inequality and exclusion among others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\">Sierra-Leone<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. Baroness Scotland, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth was in Freetown yesterday, where she held discussions with Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr about the outstanding work of the Mayor and staff at the Freetown City Council in transforming the City. Speaking after her meeting with the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr said: \u201cToday I had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[291,293,292],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland visits Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Baroness Scotland, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth was in Freetown yesterday, where she held discussions with Mayo ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/commonwealth-secretary-general-patricia-scotland-visits-sierra-leone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland visits Sierra Leone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Baroness Scotland, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth was in Freetown yesterday, where she held discussions with Mayo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/commonwealth-secretary-general-patricia-scotland-visits-sierra-leone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sierra Leone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-25T17:03:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-25T17:46:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/01\/img-61f0375b5f3fb.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"950\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"639\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/commonwealth-secretary-general-patricia-scotland-visits-sierra-leone#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/commonwealth-secretary-general-patricia-scotland-visits-sierra-leone\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland visits Sierra Leone\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-25T17:03:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-25T17:46:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/commonwealth-secretary-general-patricia-scotland-visits-sierra-leone\"},\"wordCount\":463,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/commonwealth-secretary-general-patricia-scotland-visits-sierra-leone#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/01\/img-61f0375b5f3fb.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Sierra-Leone\",\"Sierra-Leone\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/commonwealth-secretary-general-patricia-scotland-visits-sierra-leone#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/commonwealth-secretary-general-patricia-scotland-visits-sierra-leone\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/commonwealth-secretary-general-patricia-scotland-visits-sierra-leone\",\"name\":\"Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland visits Sierra Leone - 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