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Volunteer forced to flee calm by distant unrest.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 28-FEB-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Volunteer forced to flee calm by distant unrest.(International)(An upheaval in a far-flung region brings Amanda Rogers back to Springfield after a Peace Corps stint in Africa)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard

SSPRINGFIELD - Amanda Rogers had two days' notice that she was being evacuated from Guinea. Two days to pack, to say goodbye to the villagers she'd grown to know and care for.

The 27-year-old Peace Corps volunteer from Springfield had been living in a grass hut for close to two years, volunteering in a small village.

The West African nation had been shaken by unrest during the past year, with powerful labor unions upset over widespread government corruption and calling massive strikes that prompted army crackdowns.

By January, nobody was sure what would happen next.

But the traumatic events had occurred far from Selouma, the small village of 2,000 people where Rogers lived.

It was something they heard on the radio. It was about politics in the capital city of Conakry over on the coast. It wasn't about...

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