Lorin Parys Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/lorin-parys/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Lorin Parys Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/lorin-parys/ 32 32 New fears that parents of Congolese children adopted in Belgium may still be alive https://jjcornish.com/2019/01/new-fears-that-parents-of-congolese-children-adopted-in-belgium-may-still-be-alive/ Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/01/new-fears-that-parents-of-congolese-children-adopted-in-belgium-may-still-be-alive/ Belgian authorities have ordered the adoptive parents to provide DNA tests from 15 Congolese children because their parents may still be alive. Two years ago it was found that four supposed orphans from the DRC adopted in Belgium had in fact been kidnapped. Flemish MP Lorin Parys  says there are only losers in this drama. […]

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]]> Belgian authorities have ordered the adoptive parents to provide DNA tests from 15 Congolese children because their parents may still be alive.

Two years ago it was found that four supposed orphans from the DRC adopted in Belgium had in fact been kidnapped.

Flemish MP Lorin Parys  says there are only losers in this drama.

A judge will have to determine where the best interests of the children lie.

Belgian journalists have traced what they believe are the parents of children adopted from the DRC between 2013 and 2015.

They believed they were sending their children to summer camp from which they never returned.

The Congo has one of the highest rates of orphaned children because of the conflict and outbreaks of disease.

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