[Foroyaa] For years, families living along The Gambia’s border with Senegal have cultivated the same fields without interruption. Many of those farms have been passed down through generations, with land stretching across an international boundary that local communities have long crossed freely for farming, trade and family visits. This rainy season, however, many of those fields have been left uncultivated.
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