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‘I MADE IT,’ SAYS SOUTH SUDANESE WHO FLED TO UGANDA

KAMPALA: after a civil war forced Samuel Dhol Ayeun to flee South Sudan as a teenager to neighbouring Uganda in 2013, memories of watching friends die of preventable diseases due to inadequate medical care inspired his goal of becoming a doctor. Now 27, Ayeun has graduated from medical school and is busy attending to COVID-19 and other patients at the prestigious Mulago National Referral Hospital in the Ugandan capital Kampala. “I made it,” he told Reuters this week during his shift. “Being a refugee, it’s not a punishment,” he said. “It is an opportunity to continue with your dreams outside your country.” Ayeun and his family are among an estimated one million South Sudanese refugees who fled into Uganda after war broke out just two years after Juba gained independence following decades of conflict with Khartoum. | Reuters

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