Floods are new beginning for some families

Anne Look - GlobalPost October 22, 2009 16:29 ET

Senegal seeks long-term solution to flooding

Families are being moved from flood-prone suburbs to a new settlement 15 miles east of Dakar.

By Anne Look - GlobalPost
Published: November 4, 2009 07:06 ET

DAKAR, Senegal — Moving day. Mariyata Seck looks out at the lake that was once her neighborhood in Guediwaye. All of her belongings are piled on the soggy earth behind her and a red, spray-painted X marks her home of more than 20 years for demolition.

Seck is one of 3,000 families being moved from flood-prone areas in Dakar's crowded suburbs to a new settlement 15 miles east of...

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