Run or Hide? Seeking Refuge in Tanzania
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.
Refugee Bill Clinton Hadam finds a comfort zone in elite Olympic training. And his family now includes its first US citizens – newborn twins.
Until they were 6, Bill and his friends Emmanuel and Jean-Jacques lived together in Mkugwa, a camp of 2,000 Central African refugees in Northwest Tanzania.
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Mary Wiltenburg looks back on her year with Bill Clinton Hadam, a 9-year-old Tanzanian refugee now living in the United States.
Tanzania is in the midst of a massive push to rid the country of hundreds of thousands of refugees who've been living in United Nations camps within its borders.
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Two. That’s how many friends Hassan and Dawami told me they had in refugee camps in Tanzania as I prepared to go there.
From worlds apart, a Burmese rice farmer and an Iraqi accountant share a dream.
Global conflict and recession chip away at America’s ability to protect the huddled masses it has rescued: some go homeless, some even return to war zones to make a living.
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
This month, as Tanzania prepares to forcibly expel some 40,000 Central African refugees from its camps, Rwandan refugee Neema John and her young son are hiding out in an urban slum, living in fear
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Mary Wiltenburg is a Baltimore-based reporter focused on refugee issues. For a decade, she has contributed to publications and programs including This American Life, The Boston Globe...