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The rare Congo happy ending: boy returns from slavery, worth a read

The kidnappings, murders, slavery, starvation and other dismal stories that continue to come out of Eastern Congo are rarely offset by a happy ending. While checking a story about North Korea and food aid, I visited the World Food Program web site and found myself in tears after reading this, the rare happy ending: “Kidnapped boy returns from slavery,” about the son of a WFP employee, a food aid monitor, who was kidnapped five months ago and presumed dead. This week he turned up at the airstrip where his father was working, with no advance warning.

Posted by :: Ellen Wallace on 18 March 2009 at 19:14 | permalink

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GenevaLunch, 18 March 2009.

Filed under: Media

Tags: child soldiers, DRC, Eastern Congo, kidnapped boy, Lord's Resistance Army, slavery, WFP

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