Word: monrovian
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...handful of cases are being processed. Adoption organizations in the U.S., concerned about the rise in violence, keep pushing cases through. "We just want her here," says Ellen Carlson, a trainer for Wells Fargo in Long Lake, Minnesota, who has adopted Patience Williams, a big-eyed, 2-year-old Monrovian girl in short braids and a blue and white polka-dot dress. "We have her bed ready in her bedroom. We have her enrolled in her preschool. Her big sister is waiting for her little sister." The Carlsons have used a photograph of Patience - who's suffering from anemia...
...flee to refugee camps in the capital, Monrovia, where the population has been swelling to more than 1 million. Now the city faces a humanitarian catastrophe. Many people in the camps have received no food distribution since March. "It's heartbreaking," says a U.S. official who visited a Monrovian refugee camp last week. "But in a way it gives you resolve. What I saw was a plea...
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