Why are people in Sierra Leone building homes on the sea? | The Hindu

This is the slum of Cockle Bay in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.
Most of the houses in the area were constructed on land reclaimed from the sea.
This is through a process called "banking," where people pile layers of tyres, rubbish, and sacks of earth into the water and build homes on top of them.

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