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Image South Sudanese refugees receive a hot meal at Palorinya refugee camp, Uganda. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner “Don’t reconvert plowshares into swords” LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge about the famine alert in East Africa and Nigeria, the arms race and migration (LWI) On March 16, the United Nations issued an alert, drawing attention to the famine in South Sudan, Somalia,…
Image Abdi Abdullahi has come home. He is grateful to LWF for helping him gain the life experience that has enabled him to return to Somalia and serve his community. Photo: LWF/ Anne Wangari LWF assists refugees returning to Somalia Skills enable young refugees to start a new life in back home (LWI) - A protracted refugee situation in Dadaab, Kenya, means, that many young people are born in the camp or grow up there. As adults, they are encouraged to return to a…