. Officials promised the drilling would soon bring thousands of jobs and diversification of the economy.
Soon the work was overtaking the diattara, a word in the local Wolof language for the fertile fishing ground that lies on the ocean floor beneath the platform. With 90% of the town’s 250,000 people relying on fishing for income, the catch — and paychecks — were shrinking. Boxes of fish turned into small buckets, then nothing at all., has faced many troubles over the past decade. Sea erosion from climate change washed away homes, forcing moves.
“I’m obliged to find money through prostitution,” she told the AP, her shoulders hunched and voice weary in a hotel room where she wouldn’t be seen by her husband or friends.The family and others in Saint-Louis learned of the gas discovery shortly after it was announced in 2015. Two years later, energy companies BP and Kosmos established a presence in both Senegal and Mauritania and partnered with Petrosen and SMHPM, the state-owned companies, respectively.
In a statement to the AP, spokesman Thomas Golembeski said Kosmos had worked to build community relationships and that its employees visit Saint-Louis regularly to inform people of operations and act on feedback. Golembeski emphasized the project will provide a source of low-cost natural gas and expand access to reliable, affordable and cleaner energy. He also cited access to a micro-finance credit fund established for the fishing community.
Seasoned fisherman who’ve weathered past storms and changes to the industry say the gas deal poses problems on a different scale, largely thanks to the exclusion zone. Smaller boats aren’t equipped to venture past it, creating overcrowding in other fishing areas and depleting stocks for fisherman. The mother who described turning to prostitution said her husband, too, tried to fish in Mauritanian waters. He left home to seek work there one year ago and she hasn’t heard from him since.
A woman who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity said she’s been running a business in Saint-Louis connecting men with prostitutes for seven years. She uses the name Coumbista in her work to protect her identity from her family and said she’s seen her clientele drop in recent years, with young fisherman seeing a loss of income due to the gas project.
This story does not make much sense.. The Fisherman cannot fish in an area that is 1.6 Square Kilometers as per the article, So All the fish in the ocean were in that tiny area equal to a 400mx400m sqare?
Why does it always have to be Africans? I mean Dubai discovered gas they're way better than they were before the discovery... Now the reverse is the case in Senegal. Appalling 😮💨
What? Exploitation of African people, or destroying their way of life? Now, who could imagine such a thing happdning?
What’s the gas company?
Sounds like our Democratic Party, no
La facilité déconcertante avec laquelle notre chère population se fait manipuler ne finira jamais de me surprendre 😑😐. Deux mots suffisent à attiser nos émotions sans inciter à savoir les réelles motivations derrière cette médiocre 'investigation'. kebetu
A huge lie! Media like this one use to prepare targeted people to discuss on an issue for money. Turtle Ahmeyim offshore is 125 km deep from the coastline on the Senegal/Mauritania border. No direct impact on the life of this woman. Sealine border is securised by the coast gards.
Terrible !
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This is the nasty work of president Macky_Sall and his family
Africa = corruption
Why is there corruption of government ? Because there's not enough democracy to control politicians and capitalist system. Dictatorships never regulate, only strong democracy can.
By a corrupt government
To hear that there's a fishing exclusion zone is such bullshit seeing as in the Gulf of Mexico and off the California coast recreational and COMMERCIAL fishing occurs ... alongside ANY given FREAKING rig! 🤷🏻♂️
Sounds like how the Dems got blacks to move from their farms promising big jobs & houses but ehhh. You just have to live here … “temporary” till you earn enough to move again. Meanwhile. They’re still there. Waiting.
1/ Look what Obama did to Ghana. I lived in Accra, Ghana for six months in 2009. Beautiful people, beautiful country— they were exploited for their offshore oil and it destroyed incomes and livelihoods of thousands from small fishing villages. US foreign policy fails again.
OMG!, Well maybe that's why (Jesus) said, go and sin no more?
Africans just can't find peace in this White man's world.
evil gas
1) I thought we’re supposed to glorify sex work; 2) do Senegalese fish respect arbitrary boundaries? 3) if the platform (which is one of presumably many oil production platforms) is a “fertile fishing ground”…I guess fishing got better when big oil arrived? (see 2)
'Some say'
How much do the Dems leave on your dresser AP?