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Sam Mednick is a freelance journalist and the Associated Press correspondent in South Sudan. Over the past 13 years, she’s reported on conflict, post-conflict and development stories from the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. Sam writes for VICE, Foreign Policy, Devex and iPolitics, among other international publications. She also produces and hosts a podcast. Follow her work at sammednick.com and on Twitter @sammednick.
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Wracked by civil war and famine, South Sudan also has among the highest maternal mortality ratios in the world. Now, a series of initiatives is building up the ranks of the country’s midwives and cutting the number of mothers who die delivering their babies.
Once known as a pocket of peace in South Sudan, the small town of Mundri now has a reputation for its high rate of sexual assaults on women. But one group is determined to help the community’s women take back their town.
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