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Liberia's Poor and the Rising Sea

Residents of densely-populated West Point and other coastal communities in Liberia are being made homeless by the encroaching sea which continues to wash away their shacks.

  • Liberia:   Liberia's Poor and the Rising Sea

    IPS, 25 June 2014

    Mary B owned a shop in West Point, Monrovia's densely-populated slum community, where she sold liquor just few yards away from the sea. But last month, the ocean left her homeless… Read more »

Wade C. L. Williams/IPS

Environmental degradation has resulted in most of the land eroding into the Atlantic Ocean in West Point.

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