Senegal City is 'Most Threatened'
By Wendy Heller, June 15, 2008 @ 02:00 AM (EST)
Source: Bbc.co.uk
St Louis in Senegal is the city most threatened by rising sea levels in the whole of Africa, a senior United Nations official says.
"Climate change is the principal reason," UN Habitat's Alioune Badiane told a conference in St Louis, AFP news agency reports.
The city is built on an island between the mouth of the Senegal River and the Atlantic Ocean.
It was made a World Heritage site in 2000 by Unesco, the UN cultural agency.
The city, near Senegal's border with Mauritania, was founded by the French in the 17th century.
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