Région – Aboisso : face à l’avancée de la mer, le village de Mohamé recule
L’érosion côtière est un processus naturel qui a toujours existé et qui a façonné les rivages du monde tout au long de l’histoire.
En côte d’Ivoire le littoral est de plus en plus menacé par la mer qui gagne du terrain ; cela entraine d’important dégâts.
Les eaux montent, les vagues qui échouent sur la rive entraine les terres arabes et les bâtisses.
A Mohamé village de 9300 âmes, l’avancée de la mer a littéralement changé leur mode de vie ; une population jadis pêcheurs et agricultures ne parvient plus à vivre de leurs activités.
En côte d’Ivoire le littoral est de plus en plus menacé par la mer qui gagne du terrain ; cela entraine d’important dégâts.
Les eaux montent, les vagues qui échouent sur la rive entraine les terres arabes et les bâtisses.
A Mohamé village de 9300 âmes, l’avancée de la mer a littéralement changé leur mode de vie ; une population jadis pêcheurs et agricultures ne parvient plus à vivre de leurs activités.
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00:00 Coastal erosion is a natural process that has always existed and shaped the coasts of the world throughout history.
00:08 In the Ivory Coast, the coast is increasingly threatened by the sea that gains land.
00:14 This leads to significant damage.
00:16 The waves that hit the shore cause damage to the Arab lands and buildings.
00:23 In Mohame, a village of 9,300 people, located in the southeast of the Ivory Coast, in the Grand Bassam region and in the sub-prefecture of Bournois,
00:33 the advance of the sea has changed their way of life.
00:37 A population of fishermen and farmers no longer manages to live off their activities.
00:42 In the place where we are now, there were houses, there were shops, and there was even a mosque in the middle of the houses.
00:51 And today we see that the sea has taken all these houses, including the mosque.
00:56 Here is even a part, a residue of the mosque that is there.
01:01 And today, this phenomenon really takes on a scale, because from one day to the next, the sea advances.
01:09 In its time, the sea could be 200 meters, a distance of 200 meters from the first house.
01:16 But today we realize that it has reduced this distance completely, which is now maybe 15 to 20 meters from the sea.
01:27 Outside the mosque, there were houses, because there was a population, the fishermen were practically on the edge of the sea.
01:35 Because of their activities, they are practically on the edge, the houses are on the edge.
01:40 But all these houses have disappeared, because of the sand of the sea.
01:44 We, as a population, as humans, we have no solution to stop the advance of the sea.
01:50 But often we put sand in the bags anyway, and when we do that, to slow down at least the rapid advance.
01:58 Because when we put the sand in the bags that we have, we align them at the bottom of the sea, when it comes, it slows down a little.
02:06 So it allows us, in its time, to be able to relocate elsewhere, while the houses do not fall.
02:15 The village loses ground to the detriment of the sea, which advances over the years.
02:20 Houses, places of worship and schools are swallowed up by the waters, devastated plantations leaving the population in disarray.
02:29 Where I was, it was my house, and there was damage.
02:36 So the sea, since 2011, October 2011, when there was damage, the sea broke houses, there were churches, there were houses.
02:46 There was even a football field, we played.
02:50 Before, the sea was 500-600 meters deep.
02:54 Suddenly, since 2011, in October 2011, everything was destroyed.
02:59 So there was actually an advance of the sea.
03:02 I am a fish seller.
03:04 The activity before worked, but now it doesn't work anymore.
03:08 We don't know why.
03:10 Because before the sea was far away.
03:15 Every year the sea advances, but we don't know why.
03:19 We can't do anything to stop the sea.
03:23 The fishermen, when they go, they don't find many fish.
03:26 It doesn't work, it doesn't work.
03:28 In any case, it doesn't work.
03:29 Even this year, nothing worked.
03:32 It doesn't work.
03:33 Their production tools, the boats, are abandoned.
03:37 The populations, for better or for worse, have to survive on this land full of water, waiting for a government solution.
03:44 When I was little, the sea was far from our houses.
03:49 And as I grew up, I saw that the sea was advancing a lot.
03:54 It really bothers us, the fishermen.
03:56 Because sometimes, you can wake up in the morning, around 3 in the morning, and you hear the waves, which are "boom, boom".
04:04 When you wake up, all the fish are in the water.
04:07 So you have to go and get people.
04:09 You have to call your brothers, your friends, whoever you know.
04:12 They will come and you will pull all the fish you put in the water.
04:15 Sometimes, the salinity comes out of the sea, which is a lot.
04:20 It can be a month or two that you can't fish.
04:23 And we are here.
04:24 We also live on fishing.
04:27 We have nothing, we live on fishing.
04:31 And because of fishing, we take our children to school.
04:35 I am a fisherman, but the fishermen are the ones who cry the most.
04:39 They don't have any more fish to smoke, to give milk to the cows, to eat.
04:44 Now I do nothing, I sit down.
04:46 My TV doesn't work, I sit down.
04:49 More than two-thirds of the 566 km of the Ivory Coast are affected by coastal erosion.
04:55 The state of Ivory Coast, after several measures, including law No. 2017-378 of June 2, 2017,
05:03 regarding the development, protection and integrated management of the coast,
05:09 which is supposed to help the populations to adapt to this new situation.
05:13 However, the situation of several villages along the Ivory Coast remains and remains worrying
05:20 regarding the survival of their populations.
05:23 Long live the application of this new law, which is still under development.
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