It has been a long journey for my first mission with MSF, I have finally arrived in Nsanje, Malawi. Starting in January of this year when...

Not too long after my return from South Sudan, I came down with a mysterious illness that no one could say what it was that afflicted me....

I ran towards the Nile this morning and found many squatters in the midst of construction of multi-storey buildings and some hotels. The...

On my run this morning I saw a family living under a tarp slung over a horizontal tree trunk by the side of a road. They were drying...

Woke up in the middle of the night and was surprised to see the stars above me. For a brief moment I forgot where I was. The crescent...

Johnson wanted to show us the Nile in Leer so we left with Peter who came down to Leer with us a little earlier this morning traveling...

I took my run along the back roads behind the compound and saw many women easing themselves out in the open field, now totally devoid of...

For breakfast we stood around a table making tea from some powder and had a greasy bun together with the busy flies swarming over the...

I ran through the village trying hard to memorize landmarks which weren’t many so I would not get lost. Many women were already on their...

This morning I saw another runner running on the only tarmac road in town. We greeted each other as runners always do. To reach the...

We had maize porridge and tea for breakfast, it was quite good. The sun was fierce even before nine o’clock. We walked to the market in...

Today is our last day at Baow. We have picked up a few words of Nuer, Marlay (How are you?), Mamuagar or Mamadli (I’m fine), Chigualong...

This morning I ran the other direction but there were only scattered compounds of tukuls.The cows were mooing in somewhat of a contented...

Last night a couple of bats hovered in our room driving us batty. I am not sure what it was but it drove one of them crazy while I tried...

A steamy night last night, the ceiling fans have not been working for a while and probably will not be fixed either. We wished we could...

Torrential rain, strong winds and African time combined to delay our flight to Rabkona. It was utter chaos at the Juba International...

These past few days have been very surreal, starting off with the 117th Boston Marathon in which I and two of my children, Cara and...

The call to prayer often wakes me up around five in the morning, "Allah Akbar" ...It is too dark to have an early morning run and the...

Overnight many refugees came to the transit camp. Many of them have learned about the convoy for Thursday so they time their arrival so...

Over the weekend about two hundred refugees came to the camp bringing the total to slightly less than four hundred. This is what the...