Eritrea

Advocates Battle Obstetric Fistula in Eritrea

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In the United States, obstetric fistula, or tissue damages caused by childbirth, have gone the way of tuberculosis and polio. But for women in countries such as Eritrea it’s a widespread and ruinous problem that health advocates are struggling to correct.

Eritrea

Eritrean Women Poets Lifting Post-War Voices

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In war-torn Eritrea, poetry is embedded in the soul, in the history, in the very rhythms of daily life, and Saba Kidane is a poet, as well as a mother, ex-soldier, journalist and activist, who speaks of devastations, deprivations and awesome hope.