Particularly affected by climate change, the inhabitants of the Sahel are living in a paradoxical situation. They are victims of a climate imbalance which each year causes both a prolonged dry period and intense flooding. In Northern Senegal, the Peul cattle-raisers have to go into debt in order to feed their animals while waiting for the already four-month late rainy season to begin, while the inhabitants of Lougue Deymiss have seen their village disappear under water like hundreds of other villages in the Sahel. The inhabitants, who have become climate refugees, have chosen to rebuild their village near a highway in the middle of the desert, thus breaking with their traditional way of life.
