The Mayor of Bogota, Claudia Lopez, uploaded a video on her social media showing her followers how to create a homemade face mask, using things you will easily find in your house. For this project you will need an old t-shirt, scissors, a napkin, and two elastic rubbers. First, you start by cutting [...]

With Sierra Leone in the midsts of a three-day lockdown, Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr took time out to speak to France24. As city authority Mayor Aki-Sawyerr is focused to help the most vulnerable residents with the help of partners by providing more water to those communities in most need. Social distancing does not [...]

The City of Montpellier and Montpellier Mediterranean Metropolis create a local visor manufacturing unit in Cournonsec Faced with the Covid-19 epidemic, Philippe Saurel, Mayor of the City of Montpellier and President of Montpellier Mediterranean Metropolis, has chosen to implement measures to contribute to the protection of agents present on the ground, serving the [...]

Mayor Erion Veliaj of Tirana in Albania expresses gratitude for all families that are living under challenging conditions but continue to respect the strict measurements with dignity to overcome the pandemic as collective. Watch the supportive video on youtube how families are receiving food supplies to take care of the elderly.  [...]

Dear Amsterdammers, Corona is currently dominating our lives, and unfortunately it will continue to do so for some time. Our city is also being hit hard. I would like to wish a swift recovery to all those who are ill and I would like to offer my sincere sympathies to those who have lost [...]

"The lessons we learned from Ebola: trace, track, isolate. Make sure you involve the community". Between 2014 to 2016 Sierra Leone grappled with an outbreak of Ebola which killed eleven thousand people across the local region. It's now recorded its first case of coronavirus. So has its recent history made Sierra Leone better prepared to [...]