South Sudanese Surgeon Wins Prestigious Nansen Award

This year’s winner of the U.N. refugee agency’s prestigious Nansen Award is South Sudanese surgeon Evan Atar Adaha. He is being honored for two decades of life-saving medical work on behalf of thousands of refugees and internally displaced. Adaha gave up a relatively comfortable life as a surgeon in Egypt to dedicate the past 20 years to helping thousands of people victimized by war and persecution in Sudan and South Sudan.   His services have never been more in demand, as South...

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