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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tracy McVeigh in Bargny

‘Barcelona or death’: mothers watch and wait as Senegal’s men risk all to reach Europe

Fatou Samba at her beachside home in Bargny, Senegal.
Fatou Samba at her beachside home in Bargny, Senegal. Photographs by Tracy McVeigh Photograph: Tracy McVeigh/The Guardian

The view from the plastic chair in which Fatou Samba sits, looking out to sea, takes in many of the elements of the sorry tale of Senegal’s lost men. She can see the distant shapes of the big industrial foreign fishing ships and tankers, from Europe and China, strung across the horizon.

Closer to shore are dozens of empty pirogues, Senegalese wooden fishing boats, rocking idle on a sea mostly denuded of fish.

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