Truck drivers used to wait for days before crossing the Gambia River by ferry, but a towering bridge has cut the transit time down to minutes, and brought Senegal and Gambia closer.
Tag: Casamance (Senegal)
Deadlier Than the Titanic: A Ferry Set Out With About 1,900 Aboard. Only 64 Survived.
Tourists, vendors, babies, hundreds of university students and a soccer team from Senegal perished in a little-known ferry disaster 20 years ago. Survivors and families of victims still want justice.