Liberia: Illegal Sand Mining Ruining Coastal Communities in Liberia

May 7, 2017 | Lennart Dodoo, FrontPageAfrica
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Several communities that once lined Liberia’s coast are now under the Atlantic Ocean and the country risks losing more communities, infrastructures and key landmarks to the sea, if nothing is immediately done to curb sea erosion. Except for a few coastal communities occupied by some of the country’s elites, most of these communities are slums, occupied by some of the nation’s poor citizens.