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Family in Gaza returns home only to be forced out again
Inside the one remaining room of Khayria’s bombed out house in northern Gaza, the 60- year-old woman tends a cookpot of greens over an open wood fire. The smoke can escape because one wall is gone, opening the room to the outdoors. Through the opening, Khayria can see broken down buildings and rubble where her…
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Militia lays down arms in Congo
As truckloads of militia drove into Tshikapa to lay down their arms, Joseph Nkongolo went to meet them. Nkongolo—Coordinator of the Service and Development Department of the Mennonite Church of Congo—spoke of militia members saying they want to re-enter civil life. “Pray for us,” they said to him, “we have done horrible things; forgive us…
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Congo crisis grinds on
“As many as 250,000 children could starve in Kasai in the next few months unless enough nutritious food reaches them quickly,” says David Beasley, World Food Programme’s executive director, in an Oct. 30 release. Kasai is a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo suffering the aftermath of a gruesome armed conflict that displaced…
