South Sudanese midwife: Children I’ve delivered live in same war I grew up with

Tindilo Grace Losio is a South Sudanese midwife who witnessed the civil war for decades.

Her country has one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates. She grew up in a Ugandan refugee camp, became a midwife and worked tirelessly to train other midwives in her home town of Kajo Keji. But when civil war escalated two years ago, her midwifery was under threat. The clashes became so unbearable that Grace had to flee to Juba with her students. Now she fears for the pregnant women she had to leave behind - they might bleed helplessly to death.

Image: Grace Losio is teaching a midwifery class at the Kajo Keji Health Sciences Institute supported by International Medical Corps (IMC), on March 2, 2019. Copyright: AFP