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In Somaliland, a book fair is writing a nation into existence

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By Sophie Neiman Verified, Mahbub Abdillahi
| The Christian Science Monitor Verified
On an evening in late July, poet Suhaib Faro stood on stage at the Hargeysa International Book Fair and began to tell a love story. Sitting in tight rows of plastic chairs, members of the audience sipped cups of coffee with camel milk as Mr. Faro spoke lyrically of beauty and lifelong devotion. “I was raised to protect the inviolable, to take pride in your nobility, to swear against [your] humiliation,” he intoned. The subject of his adoration was not a person, but Somaliland itself.
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For this turtle rescuer, Kenya’s fishing communities make the best allies

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By Sophie Neiman Verified
| The Christian Science Monitor Verified
On a humid June morning, two turtle hatchlings flail nervously inside a red cooler faded from Watamu’s sweltering sun. A Kenyan fisher, Angore Kahindi, had found them tangled in his net and stored them in the only container he had. Then he called Fikiri Kiponda, who gives out his cellphone number to fishers in the community for just such an emergency. Mouth set in a determined line, Mr. Kiponda arrives quickly and snaps on a pair of white gloves.
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These nuns spent a lifetime helping others. In their last years, who will help them?

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By Sophie Neiman Verified
| KUOW-FM (Seattle, WA) Verified
Nkokonjeru, Central Uganda — Sister Jane Frances Nakafeero walks purposefully between rows of white crosses adorned with pink and yellow flowers in a cemetery at the Little Sisters of St. Francis convent in Nkokonjeru, Uganda. She pauses, pointing at one of the simple graves. "This one was a nurse," says Nakafeero. A few steps later. "This one was a teacher. This one was a social worker. This one was a doctor." A breeze blows softly between the headstones.
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