A family reunited

Sisters Flora Mawazo and Mahirwe Solange Kobwa are reunited with their mother, Nyirasafari Madisiyoma and brother, Sheba Sabagabo, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, after a year and a half apart. The sisters settled in Spokane a year and a half ago, but had to wait for their brother and mother.

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Sat., Jan. 20, 2018

Mahirwe Solange Kobwa, running at left, rushes to greet her mother, Nyirasafari Madisiyoma, center, in pink, and her brother Sheba Shabagabo, right, in the hallway at Spokane International Airport, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. Kobwa and her sister, Florance Mawazo, immigrated to America a year and a half ago and have been waiting for their mother and brother to follow them.

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Mahirwe Solange Kobwa hugs her brother, Sheba Shabagabo, in the hallway of Spokane International Airport, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. Kobwa has been in the United States for a year and a half and was anxious to welcome her brother and her mother (not seen behind them) to join them in Spokane.

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In a hallway at Spokane International Airport, sisters Florance Mawazo, left, and Mahirwe Solange Kobwa, second from left, greet their mother, Nyirasafari Madisiyoma, right, and brother, Sheba Sabagabo, second from right, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, after a year and a half apart. The sisters settled in Spokane a year and a half ago, but had to wait for their brother and mother.

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At Spokane International Airport, children from families that support World Relief and their mission to settle refugees hold welcome signs and anxiously wait for the relatives of sisters Florance Mawazo and Mahirwe Solange Kobwa to arrive at Spokane International Airport, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, after a year and a half apart. The sisters settled in Spokane a year and a half ago, but had to wait for their brother and mother.

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Members of the Neema Youth Choir sing and dance as a small crowd waits for the relatives of an immigrant family from Africa, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, at the Spokane International Airport.

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Nyirasafari Madisiyoma, second from left, marvels over her grandchildren as they run in the halls of Spokane International Airport, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. Madisiyoma and Sheba Shabagabo, far right, arrived from Africa to reunite with sisters Florance Mawazo, center left, and Mahirwe Solange Kobwa, second from right, after a year and a half apart.

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At Spokane International Airport, children from families that support World Relief and their mission to settle refugees hold welcome signs and anxiously wait for the relatives of sisters Florance Mawazo and Mahirwe Solange Kobwa, standing behind them, to arrive at Spokane International Airport, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, after a year and a half apart. The sisters settled in Spokane a year and a half ago, but had to wait for their brother and mother.

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At Spokane International Airport, supporters of World Relief and their mission to settle refugees hold welcome signs and anxiously wait for the relatives of African immigrants at Spokane International Airport, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, after a year and a half apart. Two sisters settled in Spokane a year and a half ago, but had to wait for their brother and mother.

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