Twenty-four years after the sinking of the Joola, the accounts of the witnesses continue to surface. A traveller who refuses to board, a young man saved because he was in the toilet, a survivor who remembers the wind and the rain: their words tell how, that night, a few meters or a simple decision separated life from death. On 26 September 2002, Joola left Ziguinchor at about 1:30 p.m. Witnesses will say that he was already leaning out of the po…
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Twenty-four years after the sinking of the Joola, the accounts of the witnesses continue to surface. A traveller who refuses to board, a young man saved because he was in the toilet, a survivor who remembers the wind and the rain: their words tell how, that night, a few meters or a simple decision separated life from death. On 26 September 2002, Joola left Ziguinchor at about 1:30 p.m. Witnesses will say that he was already leaning out of the po…