Bernard Derrien News Today

YAMOU SSOUKRO, Aug 28 — It was once a jewel of West Africa — the “Pearl of Lagoons,” people liked to call it. Today, the vast Ebrie lagoon which abuts Ivory Coast’s...

The vast Ebrie lagoon which abuts Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan is a sick and sorry sight, choked by plastic pollution and ravaged by sand extraction and unbridled development.

The bay of Beago, an important fishing village located on the shores of the lagoon bordering Abidjan, has disappeared under the plastic waste and garbage that has covered it in recent years

It was once a jewel of West Africa, the "Pearl of the Lagoons" as people liked to call it.

It was once a jewel of West Africa -- the "Pearl of Lagoons," people liked to call it.