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She fought to become a midwife. Now she’s fighting to save mothers and their babies in South Sudan

Muhamad Yehia BENTIU, South Sudan (AP) — Elizabeth Nyachiew was 16 when she watched her neighbor bleed to death during childbirth. She vowed to become a midwife to spare others from the same fate in South Sudan, a country with one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates. “If I …

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