Ivory Coast: Duekoué, After the Violence

December 19, 2011

The contested results of the late 2010 Ivory Coast presidential elections led to armed conflict. Fighting raged, particularly in the town of Duekoué in the west. During the crisis in March 2011, Duekoué's hospital found itself on the frontline. The Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team, which kept the hospital going as well as it could, was witness to the violence.

 

Tags: Ivory Coast, Armed Conflict, Midwife, Ob/Gyn

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