Their city's known for war and Ebola. What about rollerblading?
Oct 29, 2019
3 minutes
The roads that slice through this city in Congo’s eastern borderlands are not for the faint of heart.
Motorcycles loaded down with cords of firewood or one-too-many passengers swivel between hulking United Nations peacekeeping tanks. And lately, both compete for space with dirt-streaked SUVs emblazoned with an alphabet soup of nongovernmental organization logos: MSF, UNICEF, ALIMA – the most visible signs of the massive international response to the Ebola outbreak still simmering across the region.
But as 22-year-old Alice Nguru Bagheni straps on her rollerblades on a recent morning, the
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