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Kayt Mahon and Mbatilo Leo Konneh

Mbatilo Leo Konneh: Stefan and Kayt Mahon of Canmore say they are being asked to provide documents that are impossible to find during the West Africa Ebola crisis . The mother of Mbalama Grace and Mbatilo Leo Konneh died during childbirth. Submitted by the Mahon family , according to CBC. The Mahons adopted Mbalama Grace and Mbatilo Leo Konneh from a Sierra Leone orphanage last February. Their biological mother died of a hemorrhage following childbirth. Unable to care for the twins, their biological father placed them in an orphanage and later agreed to the Mahon adoption. An Alberta family say their pleas for Canadian officials to cut red tape and grant citizenship to their stranded adopted twins in Sierra Leone have been met with even more red tape. Canadian citizenship being processed for twins whose adoption delayed by Ebola Ebola outbreak delays Canmore couple adoption plans Why the U.S. is taking charge of the Ebola response "They said they'd be willing to work with us and to come back with some requests that are divorced from reality. It a little bit upsetting," said Stefan Mahon. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.