Umaru Fofana

Chiamaka Dike, field reporter who covered Makoko demolitions, describes floating homes, displacement and disputed safety claims. Umaru Fofana, journalist covering Sierra Leone's war legacy, explains the new national remembrance and the president's apology. They discuss large-scale demolitions, disrupted livelihoods, delayed accountability and the politics of memory.

Soraya Segu, an architect and urban planner who led Monterrey’s heat work, and Eugenia Carbo, Freetown’s Chief Heat Officer who coordinates trees and cooling pilots, join Umaru Fofana, a journalist reporting from Freetown’s informal settlements. They discuss day-to-day heat adaptation, why cities overheat, on-the-ground coping in Krubay, reflective roof pilots, tree counting and barriers like funding and political will.