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Article: In remote part of Congo, normalcy inches forward; Rebels have till noon Tuesday to leave Bunia so that a new commission can continue rebuilding.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 24, 2003
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Byline: Nicole Itano Special to The Christian Science Monitor
BUNIA, CONGO -- In an old Greek restaurant next to the United Nation's headquarters here, Emmanuel Leku Apuobo, a former schoolteacher, leans forward and begins listing the work ahead.
There are refugees to resettle; schools, hospitals, and courts to rebuild; immigration and customs to be restarted; child soldiers rehabilitated and militias disarmed. There are, he says, 20,000 former civil servants in the Ituri district of Congo alone, waiting for peace and the chance to begin work again.
After nearly four years of civil war, this is a region that, as one longtime aid worker put it, ...