In the coastal town of M'bour, located south of Dakar, the Cissé family feels infinite sadness.
She deplores the death of Daouda, aged 18, who lost her life in early November while trying to reach the Spanish Canary Islands on board a canoe.
His mother Coumba Fleur is inconsolable.
Despite the dangers represented by this crossing, more and more candidates are trying to leave the Senegalese coast in order to escape the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19.
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