Scores of white cattle plod into the village for their only drink of the water of the day. Herders, wearing brightly-coloured robes, walk in tow.
Soon, they will wander miles back across the semi-desert of northern Senegal in search of sparse yellow stubs poking through the sand.
The sparsely populated area is a sandy flatland, dotted with spindly gum arabic trees. The odd donkey shelters underneath them to escape soaring noon temperatures.
Pastoralists move with their cattle from north to south across Louga, and further afield, as pasture dries up, before returning north again with the summer rains.
But recent times have been hard. Less rainfall, attributed to climate change, has meant less grazing.
Worse, months of government restrictions on movement designed to curb the virus have coincided with the hardest months of the dry season.
Unable to travel far in an inhospitable landscape, herders have been forced to spend what little money they have on animal feed.
The Fulani herders' main of source of income -- selling livestock -- has also been cut off, because the local government has banned large markets over contamination fears.
To help herders, local authorities are distributing animal feed and are allowing them to sell livestock in small numbers, but it is not enough.
