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Lebanon’s crisis pushes mental health services to the limit

October 8, 2021October 10, 2021 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

BEIRUT, Oct 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Lebanese psychologist Bernard Sousse started offering online therapy sessions when patients said surging fuel prices meant they could no longer drive in to see him – but then the power cuts began.

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A year after unprecedented Iraq protests, what has changed? | AFP

October 1, 2020 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Produced with AFP bureau chief Sarah Benhaida and published here on September 29, 2020]

Back in October 2019, unprecedented protests demanded the fall of Iraq’s ruling class. One year on, with a new government in place and nearly 600 protesters killed, almost nothing has changed.

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Born under IS, sick Iraqi children left undocumented, untreated | AFP

May 16, 2019May 17, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here May 16, 2019]

Laylan (Iraq) (AFP) – No documents? No doctor. Without state-issued IDs, Iraqi mothers struggle to have children born under the now-defeated Islamic State group treated for conditions ranging from asthma to epilepsy.

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After IS, Mosul tackles another terror: super-resistant bacteria | AFP

March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on March 7, 2019]

Mosul (Iraq) (AFP) – Explosives left behind by the Islamic State group in Iraq’s Mosul took 12-year-old Abdallah’s left leg, but another kind of terror may cost him his arm: antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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Barely alive after IS, Syrian babies haunted by malnutrition | AFP

February 8, 2019February 24, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here February 8, 2019]

They survived the Islamic State group’s crumbling “caliphate” by a thread, but skeletal babies streaming into this displacement camp in northeastern Syria now face a race against malnutrition.

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Syrians in ex-rebel zones struggle after aid groups withdraw | AFP

October 8, 2018October 8, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here October 8, 2018]

Beirut (AFP) – Tens of thousands of Syrians in areas recaptured by government troops this year remain starved of humanitarian aid, with the relief agencies helping them for years now unable to reach them.

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Doctors ask Syria to lift 7-year ban on access to wounded | AFP

May 23, 2018May 24, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on May 23, 2018]

Beirut (AFP) – Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday called on Syria’s government to reverse its seven-year ban on the medical charity, issuing an urgent appeal for access to wounded people in regime-held territory.

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As Syria’s Raqa battle nears end, road to rescue lengthens | AFP

October 4, 2017October 23, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here October 5, 2017]

Raqa (Syria) (AFP) – “Don’t close your eyes. Stay awake!” the anti-jihadist Syrian fighter yelled at his injured comrade as a Humvee whisked them across the Islamic State group’s former stronghold Raqa. Continue reading →

Syrian hospital saves lives by going solar | AFP

May 30, 2017June 6, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on May 30, 2017]

Beirut (AFP) – Neo-natal wards and emergency rooms in a northern Syrian hospital will from Tuesday have uninterrupted electricity for the first time in years thanks to new solar panels, a charity said.

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Mosul battle leaving legacy of environmental damage | AFP

December 12, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on December 12, 2016]

Qayyarah, Iraq // The battle to retake Mosul from ISIL is leaving a legacy of environmental damage and health risks that will pose dangers to people for years to come.

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