Senegal: Families Internally Displaced by Floods in Limbo

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Fisherfolk working in Saint-Louis, located about 250 kilometers north of Senegal's capital, Dakar, on January 8, 2025. © 2025 Andres Gutierrez/Anadolu via Getty Images For nine years, in Khar Yalla, authorities have effectively abandoned Senegalese families internally displaced from the Langue de Barbarie peninsula by coastal floods, violating their rights to an adequate standard of living, education, health, and to take part in cultural life.Senegalese authorities failed to include these families in a World Bank-funded planned relocation of others from the…

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