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ZIGUINCHOR: Twenty years after Le Joola ferry sank, the Senegalese town where half of the nearly 1,900 dead lived paid tribute on Monday to those killed in the disaster described as a “wound that never heals”.When news spread that the vessel had capsized on the night of September 26, 2002, no one in the southern town could believe it.“It was unthinkable,“ said Nouha Cisse, who was head teacher at a secondary school in Ziguinchor that lost 150 pupils to the tragedy.A hundred relatives and officials took part on Monday morning in two religious commemorative ceremonies -- Catholic and Muslim -- next to around 50 graves in Kantene cemetery on the outskirts of Ziguinchor.An official delegation la

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