Things are heating up in our little corner of the world. Armed conflicts forced a partial evacuation of our mission on the 20th of January. I am in the part of the team asked to leave. The rest of the expat team left the next day. It was all done in the calm. The essential part of the team returned Monday, the 23rd. There are 3 of us left, along with 18 nationals, who will probably be able to return tommorrow. We are in Beni, about 7 hours away from Kayna.

All is fine. We really want to go back. I know that the team there, who are not exactly in a secure situation, are building links between each other that we (those of us left here) will never be able to have with them. But we also understand that it's best for everyone involved that there is a minimum of personnel there in case of armed conflict coming up that far.

Sorry that this is short, but I 'm pretty busy, even though I'm not on our base. I kind of head up the team here.