Overview

• Human Rights Watch released its report Monday detailing how families displaced by 2015–2016 coastal floods remain in Khar Yalla without a durable solution, based on more than 100 interviews and satellite analysis.
• The site lacks electricity and waste services, sits in a flood zone where wastewater enters homes, and service gaps have kept many children out of school and deterred health care.
• Senegalese officials acknowledge Khar Yalla is unfit for permanent habitation, yet the government excluded these households from the World Bank-funded move to Djougop that relocated later cohorts, including more than 200 families displaced in 2017–2018.
• Distance to the Langue de Barbarie and transport costs have undermined fishing livelihoods and food security, with most households now below the lower-middle-income poverty line and cultural ties to fishing eroding.
• Human Rights Watch urges urgent relocation with interim service improvements, a rights-based national policy and Kampala Convention ratification, and calls on the World Bank to reform guidance to identify long-displaced beneficiaries.