I love this story. I've followed the story of this boat since the first post on Thorn Tree I read when someone wanted to know if the Liemba was still on Lake Tanganyika....and now this story:
http://gcaptain.com/refugee-rescue-100-year-old-ship-ferries-thousands-to-safety/
" Kagunga is a small Tanzanian village close to the border with Burundi. Wedged between a steep mountain range and the waters of Lake Tanganyika, it has little access to other parts of Tanzania except by boat. And so, almost overnight, this sleepy fishing community has become the focal point of a humanitarian crisis.
Local immigration authorities report that 47,000 Burundian refugees have arrived here in recent weeks. As conditions grew increasingly crowded, some began falling ill with acute watery diarrhoea and cholera, setting in motion a round-the-clock boatlift to help them reach safety."
and there's more to the story, click the link.
