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Congo grants exit visas to adopted children after two-year wait

Published 2015-11-02, 10:47 a/m
Congo grants exit visas to adopted children after two-year wait

KINSHASA, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Congo will allow 69 children to
leave for adoption by foreign parents, the first to be granted
exit visas since the government imposed a moratorium two years
ago, the interior ministry said on Monday.
Ministry spokesman Claude Pero Luwara told Reuters that a
commission had approved exit visas for children to join 14
American families and families in France, Belgium, Canada,
Italy, Germany and the Netherlands.
"They have all the documents. They are able to leave now,"
Luwara said.
Congo imposed the moratorium in September 2013 over fears
that adopted children could be abused or fall victim to
trafficking. The government has also voiced concerns about
adoptions by gay couples.
An investigation by the Thomson Reuters Foundation last
month found that more than 80 adopted Congolese children have
been smuggled out of the country and to the United States in the
past two years. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N12936T
Some Congolese judges have continued to grant adoptions to
foreign parents despite the exit visa ban, leaving some 1,000
adoptive families, nearly half of them American, in limbo. The
U.S. and other foreign governments have repeatedly pressed Congo
to lift the suspension.
Luwara added that a bill to lift the moratorium had been
drafted by the relevant ministry and awaited parliamentary
approval.

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