In the city of Saint-Louis, in northern Senegal?

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Twenty million euros are also intended to finance Lhyfe projects. Lhyfe was launched in 2019 and already has a portfolio of 60 projects across Europe. It is also planned to deploy facilities in other French regions. Following the announcement last year of Lhyfe’s first international projects in Denmark and more recently in Portugal, new projects are expected to be announced in Italy, Germany and the UK.

Swen Capital Partners and Bank of the Territories joins Lhyfe’s top five investors: Noria, Ovive (Les Saules Group), West Growth, Océan Participations, and the semi-public company Vendée Energy.The former capital of Senegal on the front line against rising waters
Saint-Louis (Senegal) (AFP)

excavators tear up the beach to deposit giant blocks of basalt, in a last-minute effort to keep the sea at bay.

Once the work is completed, a dike will stretch for kilometers job function email database along the coastline of the former capital of this West African country, famous for its colonial-era architecture.

Dreadful warnings about the risk of sea level rise due to climate change are already a grim reality in St. Louis, where waterfront residents are abandoning their homes as the Atlantic Ocean advances.

But the dike is a stopgap. And some are skeptical about the possibility of saving the historic city of 237,000 inhabitants.

Saint-Louis has “already been wiped off the map,” said Boubou Aldiouma Sy, professor of geography at the city’s Gaston Berger University.

Its unique position – near the mouth of the Senegal River, with both the swollen waterway and the ocean on its banks – means its long-term existence has always been in doubt, he said.