
Sokhna (C) plays football with her sister Coumba and a neighbor (R) outside their home in Mbour, on March 9, 2026. Both sisters lost their father in 2022 as the pirogue he was travelling in capsized trying to reach Europe through the Atlantic route. For children of Senegalese migrants lost at sea, the torment of grief is long-lasting. Known as "those who remain", the young bereaved are forced to live with the unbearable suspense or impossible grief of knowing a parent has either died or gone missing after their boat disappeared. The number of such dead, missing and their children is at least in the thousands in Senegal as of recent years. (Photo by PATRICK MEINHARDT / AFP via Getty Images)

