When Bill Clinton Hadam's refugee family was approved for resettlement in the U.S., the boy's parents faced a "Sophie's Choice" dilemma: him or his sister. After escaping slaughter in Congo and Rwanda, the family waited in a Tanzanian camp for nearly a decade. Rape was common there, and Bill's teen sister Neema was a victim. Afterward, she ran away.
Mary Wiltenburg Finalist for Livingston, Dart Awards
Published January 6, 2011
In 2010, Mary Wiltenburg was named a finalist for the 2009 Livingston Awards and the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma for her Christian Science Monitor reporting series on a refugee family from Tanzania resettlement in the United States.
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The sister and nephew of Tanzanian refugee Bill Clinton Hadam, whose family resettled in America, could soon be reunited pending DNA tests and government screenings and fees.
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Christina is an international journalist and holds both a bachelor and a master's degree in broadcast journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. In 2008 she was...