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Fighting Scars Smallest Kenyans

Kids witness parents' death in ethnic clashes

By Caroline Zimmerman, Newser User

Posted Feb 3, 2008 3:43 PM CST

(Newser) – The violence in Kenya is separating droves of children from their parents—sometimes forever, the BBC reports. One Nairobi orphanage is currently hosting 60 displaced children; some wait for their parents to find them, but most know their mothers and fathers are already dead. "... Read full story »

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