Southern African Mothers Plead for Sons Lured to Russia's War
Families say recruiters promised money and support, while officials report deaths, wounds and repatriations as trafficking cases and investigations expand.
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‘Not our war’: African families’ anguish as sons trapped in Ukraine conflict
Instead of celebrating her son’s birthday this month, Zimbabwean mother Rodwin Chitewere spent the day praying for his body to be brought home from Russia, where he was reportedly killed fighting Moscow’s war against Ukraine. In Botswana and South Africa, too, women are desperate for sons and husbands to return from a conflict many say they were duped into joining, as authorities warn recruiters are still active. Chitewere’s son, who would have …
Southern African mothers plead for sons lured to Russia's war
In Botswana and South Africa, too, women are desperate for sons and husbands to return from a conflict many say they were duped into joining, as authorities warn recruiters are still active. Chitewere's son, who would have turned 23, left with a cousin in April from a remote village in eastern Zimbabwe where he had been living with his grandmother. His mother -- 350 kilometres (220 miles) away in Beitbridge -- only found out when a relative sp…
In other countries in the region, such as Botswana and South Africa too, women despair that their son or husband will return from a conflict in which they have been plunged against their will in many cases, after recruitment campaigns on the misleading grounds that persist. Rodwin Chitewere's son would have been 23 years old. In April, he left with a cousin from a remote village, where he lived with his grandmother. Living far away, his mother o…
'I need closure': Southern African mothers plead for sons lured to Russia's war
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