Senegal's old capital on the frontline against rising sea | Life

SAINT-LOUIS (Senegal), Oct 4 — In the northern Senegalese city of Saint-Louis, excavators are ripping up the beach to lay giant blocks of basalt, in an eleventh-hour effort to keep the sea at bay. When work is finished, a black sea wall will stretch for kilometres along the coastline of the West...

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