Women in Conflict

Audio diaries of women who are working in the world's most war-torn areas

Syria: I treated children under siege for six years
Amani Ballour worked under bombardment in an underground hospital called "The Cave"
Yemen: We suffer from a shortage of staff and new epidemics
Dr Najla Al Sonboli, a paediatrician in Sanaa, worked without a salary for two years
Iraq: The Mosul I returned to is not my city anymore
Doctor Hiba left Mosul after the Islamic State group's invaded her neighbourhood in 2014
South Sudanese midwife: Children I’ve delivered live in same war I grew up with
Tindilo Grace Losio grew up in a Ugandan refugee camp and became a midwife
Syria: Teaching in Qamishli amid the explosions is agony
Nisreen Abdulrahman teaches in a run-down alongside frequent bomb blasts in a Kurdish city
Afghanistan: I lost my love and life partner in Kabul bombings
Mashal Kakar is from a generation of widowed women the 18-year-long Afghan war left behind