Dial ‘D’ for Dadaab
James Maskalyk is an emergency physician and, when not in the field, lives and works in Toronto. His first mission with MSF was in Abyei, in a small hospital on the still contested border between North and South Sudan, and his
blog from there
became a book
Six Months in Sudan.
He is in the field again, working and living in a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, home to 300,000 displaced Somali people.
Monthly Archives: May 2007
in sh’allah.
I am to fly out today. i will drive to agok, 30 km from abyei, and wait by the cracked landing strip with a few other desperate travellers each scanning the sky for a plane. the first thing we will … Continue reading
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six days race.
at the entrance to compound one, there is a white board on which all of our movements are recorded. it has room for 2 weeks of Mondays through Sundays. when a week runs through, it is wiped off the board … Continue reading
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three days.
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crowds of clouds.
tired. the sky looks like it will fall. after a dozen cloudless mornings, blueblue afternoons, and sweltering starred nights, heavy black clouds hang above us, looming, ready to crash down. the wind has whipped up sand, and as we rush … Continue reading
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little bits.
that boy, the one whose bone we drilled into with an hypodermic cannula, the one who i used as an example of our small therapeutic successes, the one who came to life after lying dry, drooping in his mother’s arms, … Continue reading
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“…austere as the Sudanese landscape, this book has poetry in it along with pain…” – The Washington Post
