Crucial salt trade revives as Pink Lake slowly recovers from floods

Senegal's Pink Lake, famous for both its distinctive coloring and its salt-harvesting trade, is slowly recovering its characteristic rose-tinted hue. Heavy flooding four years ago nearly destroyed the ecosystem and local economy, but France 24 reports the lake is on the mend.

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