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| - We are offering the following Editor's Choice stories which have been selected by AFP's chief editors for re-publication as some of the best of the week: + Searching for the lost children after DR Congo volcanic eruption + Survivor of indigenous boarding school in Canada recalls painful times + Race against time to relocate NATO's Afghan translators + Drought-hit California scales up plan to truck salmon to ocean + Yemen's unique 'dragon's blood' island under threat DRCongo-volcano-children,FOCUS GOMA, DR Congo DR Congo's Mount Nyiragongo has ceased to rumble and Goma, the city that lives in its shadow, is in recovery mode. But hundreds of parents are still frantically searching for children who became separated from them during the panicky flight to safer ground. 650 words by Heritier Baraka Munyampfura. Pictures and video by Guerchom Ndebo Canada-indigenous-school,INTERVIEW KAMLOOPS, Canada It is a lifetime since she left, but Evelyn Camille's throat tightens as she returns to her old indigenous boarding school in western Canada to honor the 215 pupils whose bodies were discovered in a mass grave. 600 words by Julien Besset. Picture. Video Afghanistan-conflict-Britain-US-translators,FOCUS LONDON Like thousands of Afghan translators who served with NATO forces, Nazir Ahmad fears for his life as the US-led alliance scrambles to pull out of the country in the coming weeks. 900 words by Callum Paton and Mushtaq Mojaddidi in Kabul. Pictures by Wakil Kohsar. Video by Najiba Noori and Mathilde Bellenger US-environment-drought-fishing,FOCUS OROVILLE, United States With chronic drought drying up rivers earlier than usual this year, California is scaling up a drastic operation to help its famous Chinook salmon reach the Pacific -- transporting the fry by road in dozens of large tanker trucks. 500 words by Laurent Banguet. Pictures by Patrick Fallon. Video by Sebastien Vuagnat Yemen-Socotra-environment,FOCUS SOCOTRA, Yemen Centuries-old umbrella-shaped dragon's blood trees line the rugged peaks of Yemen's Socotra -- a flagship symbol of the Indian Ocean archipelago's extraordinary biodiversity, but also a bleak warning of environmental crisis. 900 words by Peter Martell. Picture. File video afp
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