From Crisis to Calling

PART I

THE CONGO RESCUE MISSION

SASHA CHANOFF WAS A YOUNG FIELD OFFICER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL Organization for Migration recently arrived in Africa when he and a colleague, Sheikha Ali, were sent into the Congo on a life-and-death rescue mission. The Congo was aflame with violence. In response to events that followed the Rwandan genocide, Congo’s strongman government had launched a campaign to eradicate the country’s Tutsi minority. Many villages had been attacked. Thousands had been killed, many in atrocious ways. Amidst the waves of anti-Tutsi ...