However, once in Chad, Ms Cholin found the children were "in good health" and were "crying and asking to go back to where they had come from".

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If her teenage boy is crying in his room, should she go in and comfort him, or will this embarrass and shame him?

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"A lot of journalists were crying and surely more than one of them will have to go, " he said.

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