Living convictions - Dr Ione in the Central African Republic (Part IV)

In 1968, Dr Ione, then a young medical student from Italy, came to the newly independent Central African Republic to help run a hospital in the north. Since then, she has spent thirty-four years in the country, living through rebellions, mutinies, intermittent progress, and desperation.

In the fourth part of our interview series, Dr Ione recalls last year's attacks on the village of Ngaoundaye, and the farmers forced to flee into the bush. She talks about the violence made to women and their incredible ability to forgive those who attacked them. She shared the fears of the people of Ngoundaye as she hid with them at nights. Finally, she remembers the courage demonstrated by the population to protect their community hospital against the assailants.

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• Central African Republic
• Humanitarian Crisis
• HDPT
• Ngaoundaye
• Ouham
• Pende
• COOPI
• health
• development
• ione