UN News/Assumpta Massoi
From DR Congo to New York City – one war refugee’s UN-aided journey
New York-based Lubunga Mwendanababo’s life has been very different from his work colleagues and friends.
Today, Lubunga is a US citizen, a recent graduate of Georgia State University, and manager of a furniture store in New York.
But, as a small child, he and his family were forced to flee a bloody conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and spent 14 years in a refugee camp in neighbouring Tanzania, along with over 14,000 others forced from their homes.