Senegal urged to implement relocation plan for displaced people

Senegal urged to implement relocation plan for displaced people

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Thursday that nearly one thousand Senegalese citizens continue to live in temporary shelters, with no clear prospect of relocation to permanent housing, a decade after coastal floods struck the Langue de Barbarie peninsula and destroyed their homes. HRW’s climate displacement researcher, Erica Bower, said: “A decade of living in uncertainty is an unacceptable reality for families already traumatized by climat…