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A wedding in a time of war
Kurt Shillinger
Acts of individual valor or defiance amid war go mostly unrecorded. But every now and then, a story pierces the fog 鈥� and with it, the whole notion of helplessness or intractability. Sudan is at war. Its people are starving. Yet one mother鈥檚 determination to celebrate the marriage of her youngest daughter roused her community from want to plenty. For a moment in the Nuba Mountains, Amuna Bashir Kodi silenced war not with arms but with selflessness and gratitude.
