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Akon City is a labyrinth of gleaming metal and glass, with miles of palm-lined roads. Undulating rose-gold towers reach up toward the sky, their vast windows and curves reflecting the sea in front of them. At least, that’s how the city looks in architects’ sketches. The Senegalese “smart city,” the brainchild of Senegalese American singer Akon, hasn’t yet been built. For now, the land is still the sleepy coastal town of Mbodiène, home to mostly fishers and farmers.  Why We Wrote This Akon City has been compared to Wakanda: the fictional city in “Black Panth...

More than 700 dead pelicans found in Senegal World Heritage site CNN 1/28/2021 © Google Some 750 pelicans have been found dead in a UNESCO World Heritage site in northern Senegal that provides refuge for millions of migratory birds, the country's parks director said. Rangers found the pelicans on January 23 in the Djoudj bird sanctuary, a remote pocket of wetland near the border with Mauritania and a resting place for birds that cross the Sahara Desert into West Africa each year. An unverified video published on local media showed hundreds of pelican carcasses scattered on a beach, muddy ...

Rangers are investigating mystery deaths at Djoudj bird sanctuary, a migratory pitstop for hundreds of bird species

Over 700 pelicans found dead at Senegalese world heritage site By Chad Williams Share CAPE TOWN – Over 700 pelicans were found dead in a UNESCO World Heritage site in northern Senegal that provides refuge for millions of migratory birds, according to international media reports. News broadcaster Al Jazeera reported on Thursday that 750 pelicans were found dead in Djoudj bird sanctuary near the border with Mauritania, a remote pocket of wetland near the border with Mauritania and a resting place for birds that cross the Sahara Desert into West Africa each year. undefined According to the Gua...

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read DAKAR (Reuters) - Some 750 pelicans have been found dead in a UNESCO World Heritage site in northern Senegal that provides refuge for millions of migratory birds, the country’s parks director said. Rangers found the pelicans on Jan. 23 in the Djoudj bird sanctuary, a remote pocket of wetland near the border with Mauritania and a resting place for birds that cross the Sahara Desert into West Africa each year. An unverified video published on local media showed hundreds of pelican carcasses scattered on a beach, muddy and darker than their normally eye-catching whi...