In northern Senegal, advancing waters and depleting fish stocks threaten lives, livelihoods and a city’s existence 3 February 2021 • 3:30pm Saint Louis, a low-lying town nestled between the mouth of the Senegal River and the Atlantic ocean, is sinking Credit: Alamy Moustapha Diagne remembers a time when kids in Guet Ndar played football on the beach behind the houses. If you brought 10 teams together, Diagne, 23, says, they would all fit comfortably on the beach. But today, it would be hard to even have a simple kickabout in the space that is left. The sea is at the doorsteps of Guet Ndar, a neighbourhood of Saint Louis, gnawing at the beach, shrinking it. Buildings, neighbours and a little of the childhood Diagne remembers are gone and what is left of that massive football field is barely enough for the fishermen to keep their fishing boats on.