If they sink under 5%, as they did in the west in 1990, they will be entitled to no parliamentary seats and will be lost to the Social Democrats as a partner.

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But Banjul, capital of Gambia in West Africa, is likely to sink entirely into the ocean due to a combination of erosion and rising sea levels, according to a 2002 World Bank discussion paper on cities and climate change.

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