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Dr. Ashwaq Moharram

Ashwaq Moharram is a Yemeni physician, noted for her work dealing with starvation in the Yemeni city of Hudaydah.
In 2016 after working as a doctor for twenty years she was named one of the BBC 100 Women for her achievements.
Moharram has said of her work: "I'm seeing the same thing I used to watch on TV when the famine unfolded in Somalia. I never thought I would see this in Yemen.

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