Goats and Soda

editor's note

Dear readers,

Those boys on the bikes are doing what kids love to do everywhere in the world -- show off their wheelies.

What's remarkable is that they're doing it in Khartoum.

Two years ago, this bustling metropolis on the Nile became engulfed in the Sudanese civil war. Last month, government troops regained control from the rebels. But much of the city is in ruins. Millions of residents fled. Health facilities have been devastated. 

Now the city is struggling to heal itself -- and those citizens who stayed and suffered.

NPR correspondent Emmanuel Akinwotu visited in April and reports on the struggles to rebuild -- and how, amid the devastation and pain, there are encouraging signs. Like those boys on their bikes.

Read the story here.

Marc Silver,
Editor, Goats and Soda

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