The Missionaries of Charity mission has reopened in the Kissy neighbourhood of Freetown, according to the missionary news agency MISNA. The bishop of Makeni, Giorgio Biguzzi, who visited the mission on Saturday, said he was surprised to see it functioning despite the absence of the Sisters. Two men and two women, who had previously assisted the Sisters, were administering care to some 30 people, mostly children and the elderly. “I was convinced that everything would have been abandoned after all the looting in the past weeks,” the bishop said. A nearby parish was supplying food and medicine. In January, rebels kidnapped six Sisters of Charity and four of them lost their lives, MISNA recalled.
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