Hey Drew, Thanks for the post !
Indeed, a sad story with all the realities of Africa.

I had to pack out 13 evacuated families before the 'thugs' got to their homes. He's right, Kinshasa's embassy saw many evacs, as often as one a year.

We had one regretful year where the embassy leadership was content in telling State that the situation was calm and he was prepared to return dependents to post (completely against intel reports to the contrary).

Welcome back !

Regards, Stan