After days of torrential rain, salt miner Moussa Diare could only watch in despair as flood waters breached a meters-wide gap on the banks of Senegal's Pink Lake and washed away thousands of dollars worth of salt mounds he had gathered.
Senegal, like other countries in the West and Central Africa region, has recorded above-normal rainfall in recent weeks that has unleashed destructive floods after poor drainage systems failed.
Diare is one of over 3,000 people who earn a living from the lake, including hundreds of divers who manually rake salt from the bottom of the lake, producing around 38,000 tonnes annually. The salt is used for cooking and exported around the region. Abdoulaye Faty, a hydrologist and lecturer at Dakar's Cheikh Anta Diop University, told Reuters that rising water levels in surrounding plateaus naturally pooled into the low-lying lake.
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