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Fifty Meters From Shore: Why 228 Vanished on Lake Victoria
Fifty Meters From Shore: Why 228 Vanished on Lake Victoria
The calm surface of Lake Victoria masked a catastrophe: the MV Nyerere rolled onto its side just fifty meters from the Bwisya dock on September 20, 2018, and 228 people did not make it to shore. How did a fourteen-year ferry with recently serviced engines and an intact hull capsize in flat water - and why will some names never be known?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of that afternoon, the gaps in the official record, and the surviving testimonies that both illuminate and complicate what happened; could the answer lie in the…
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