{"id":10982,"date":"2022-09-26T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T08:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/09\/26\/africas-titanic-remembering-senegals-joola-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T08:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T08:38:29","slug":"africas-titanic-remembering-senegals-joola-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=10982","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Africa&#8217;s Titanic&#8217;: Remembering Senegal&#8217;s Joola tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">On 26 September 2002, The Joola, a government-owned Senegalese ferry, capsized off the coast of The Gambia, killing over 1,800 people. There were just 64 survivors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It is the second-worst non-wartime maritime disaster in history, taking the lives of more than the infamous Titanic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Twenty years on, the BBC investigates why this tragedy occurred and tells the harrowing, heart-warming stories of survivors and families, who continue to call for the wreckage to be raised from the sea bed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Watch the full documentary The Joola: Africa&#8217;s Titanic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QW84OZeXJog\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Produced and directed by Efrem Gebreab and Nicola Milne<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Edited by Anthony Irungu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-63015518?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] On 26 September 2002, The Joola, a government-owned Senegalese ferry, capsized off the coast of The Gambia, killing over 1,800 people. There were just 64 survivors. It is the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}