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Climate change drowning 'Venice of Africa'
2013-05-26 15:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times: He had kept his two wives and many of his 16 children with him long after the neighbours had fled, in the vain hope that his once-bustling, tenacious west African village could survive the remorseless advance of the Atlantic Ocean. "My house used to be two kilometres (1.2 miles) from the sea. I could grow things here because there was fresh water which came from the river," Diagne said, surveying a stretch of wet sand and rubble which, until last year, had been his living room. Doun Babe Dieye,...
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