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    South Sudan's midwives, boosted by aid, wonder how long donors will deliver

    Sep 13, 2018 5 minutes
    A student at a training for traditional birth attendants in Juba, South Sudan demonstrates the correct technique for hand washing. Hospital births are rare in South Sudan.

    It was July 9, 2011, and just outside the walls of the maternity ward at the largest public hospital in the city, a country was being born.

    Inside, meanwhile, babies were also being born, lots and lots of babies.

    As Dr. Alice Pityia scrambled through her rounds, the wails of the newest citizens of the world’s newest country mixed with the cheers of the crowd outside. Throughout the delivery ward, mothers sprawled on the thin metal beds talked names.

    Independence, she heard one suggest. Yes, that was a good name for a girl. Elegant and strong.

    Salva Kiir, offered another, after the man who had been their president for all of 20 minutes.

    “You have never seen mothers so happy,” says Dr. Pityia, remembering her shift at

    Momentum, dashed'Commander in chief of these babies' lives'

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