Church World Service Welcomes First Somali Bantu Refugees to Denver, Phoenix

From: U.S. Newswire | Date: May 21, 2003 | Copyright information

News Advisory:

Global humanitarian agency Church World Service and its partner agencies will welcome the first two families of Somali Bantu refugees to be resettled in the U.S., Thursday May 22 in Denver, Colorado, and Phoenix, Arizona. The Bantu families' arrival marks a new chapter in the life of a people who have lived in constant oppression for almost two centuries.

The two families are the first of a group of approximately 12,000 Somali Bantu that the U.S. State Department...

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