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More than 7,000 km of coastline in West Africa - from Mauritania to Cameroon - is being washed away, disrupting the lives of tens of millions of people in thirteen countries. While local governments scramble to salvage big cities and industrial complexes, thousands of villages are being left out in the cold, bringing a way of life that has been around for a thousand years to the brink of extinction. Photographer Matilde Gattoni has been to meet some of the communities at risk. The first village she visited was Fuveme, in Ghana which is caught between the Atlantic ocean and the Volta river. (Photo: Man standing in front of the sea in Fuveme. Credit: Matilde Gattoni / matildegattoni.photoshelter.com)