Senegal’s capital floods again, locals boo visiting politicians


Horses carts on flooded streets after heavy rain in Dakar, Senegal, August 22. Anger is growing over increasingly routine flooding in the capital city. – AFP pic, August 24, 2021.

SENEGAL’s Interior Minister Antoine Felix Abdoulaye Diome is up to his knees in water, in a suburb of the West African country’s capital, surveying flood damage. 

He’s inspecting a home in the eastern Keur Massar district: The first floor and courtyard have been submerged in brown water for three days.


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