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Senegalese town fights losing battle against trash

The view from Bargny: The small Senegalese village is caught between a cement victory, artisanal fish smokers and the plastic-strewn tide of the Atlantic . [AFP]

Medza remembers the coastline of his native Senegalese town of Bargny as a place where he fished and played as a child before it became a festering rubbish dump.

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