This is a partial response to Yaya's ignorance and lack of foresight and
Wade is not done with him.  With reduced traffic through Gambia, also come
reduced revenues.  I wonder what Yaya and his Government will tell Gambians
that eeked out a daily at the corssings, as poverty stangles them.

New ferry after Senegal sinking

Overloading and negligence caused the accident, an inquiry found
A new ferry service linking northern and southern Senegal is being launched
on Friday, plying the route of the Joola, which sank in 2002.
The overcrowded Joola sank in a storm when sailing between the Casamance
region and the capital, Dakar.

Almost 2,000 people were drowned and only 64 people were saved, with rescue
efforts delayed until the next day.

The replacement ferry, the Wilis, is due to begin its first passenger
journey at 1900 GMT on Friday.

With no ferry service to Dakar, Casamance was cut off from the rest of
Senegal. The shortest overland route crosses The Gambia and travellers and
traders are often subject to bureaucratic delays.

Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade recently suggested building a tunnel
under The Gambia.

Schoolchildren victims

The Joola remains on the bottom of the ocean with some 1,000 victims still
inside.

Many of the families are still waiting for promised compensation totalling
some $30m.


"Some families are being asked to produce the journey tickets, even though
these are lying on the bottom of the sea with the victims," said Idrissa
Diallo from an organisation for the victims.

Many of those who died were schoolchildren returning to Dakar at the end of
the summer holidays.

The ferry was carrying nearly four times as many people as it should have
been when it went down off the Gambian coast.

An inquiry concluded that the accident had been caused by overloading and
negligence on the part of the boat's operators, the Senegalese navy and
rescue services.

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