A church mission group from the East Bay is finally on the way home after being trapped in the west African country of Niger for almost a week.
A group of 15 people from Antioch’s Cornerstone Christian Center and school boarded a flight to Paris, chartered by the U.S. State Department after six days of sheltering in place.
But the church group's flight home last Friday was unexpectedly grounded indefinitely. Niger's military had detained the country's democratically elected president and staged a coup.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
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