'No children left playing': Silence fills Panama island threatened by the sea


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A child looking at Carti Tupile Island from Gardi Sugdub island. — Photos: AFP

Streets once filled with children’s laughter have fallen silent on a Panamanian island where almost all residents left a year ago due to the threat of the sea swallowing their homes.

The evacuation of around 1,200 members of the Indigenous Guna community to a new life on the mainland was one of the first planned migrations in Latin America due to climate change.

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