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Life remains an anxious effort for a refugee community of about 300 people in 42 families. They came on an airlift of 12,000 Bantu plucked from desperate straits in Africa beginning in 2003. The U.S.

(Columbia) Feb. 24, 2004 - The first Somali Bantu refugee to arrive in Columbia, Abdulkadir Mohamed, will have a lot of adjusting to do now that he's arrived. Lutheran Family Services is overseeing ...

Lee Ann Whittenberg can no longer stand to look at the daily pictures of the Oklahoma City bombing in which her 35-year-old daughter died. So Whittenberg, 59, has accepted an invitation from Bantu ...