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The former administrative capital of French West Africa, Saint-Louis in Senegal sits between the Senegal River and the Atlantic Ocean. Its highest point stands just 13 feet above sea level, and it gets waves from both fresh and seawater that have become a growing threat as water levels rise.
SAINT-LOUIS (SENEGAL) - 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.
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...
Dire warnings about the risk of rising sea levels due to climate change are already a reality in Saint-Louis, where beachfront residents are abandoning their homes to the encroaching Atlantic Ocean
Senegal's old capital on the frontline against rising sea