Tyler Stiem is a Canadian journalist based in London whose work has appeared in the Walrus, the Toronto Globe and Mail, Outpost, and on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s foreign correspondent program, “Dispatches.”
The idea had come to him on a day of fever and paperwork—in his profession they went hand in hand—and the more Appiah thought about it, the better sense it made: He would marry her. Every year, he and Solomon took a week of their annual lea [...]
“Okay, My-name-is, you can go.” The soldier, a Bangladeshi peacekeeper, waved Tamba through the morning’s third checkpoint and retreated into his tiny shed. There was little chance we’d make it to Buchanan and back before dark, but we would try. Traveling by road at night presented certain risks, even with all the peacekeepers on patrol.
“Okay, My-name-is, you can go.” The soldier, a Bangladeshi peacekeeper, waved Tamba through the morning’s third checkpoint and retreated into his tiny shed. There was little chance we’d make it to Buchanan and back before dark, but we would try. Traveling by road at night presented certain risks, even with all the peacekeepers on patrol.
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