Marie Diouf has built a businwss from salt flats she saved up to buy, in a trade where most marsh owners are men.
Starting off as a harvester, she wondered why the women doing this job never got to keep the proceeds of their work.
Nicknamed the "Salt Queen, she now employs between 10 and 20 men and women.
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