Islam Online Live Dialogue: Humanitarian Crisis in Darfur – An Eyewitness Account

Assalamu ‘alaykum wr wb!

This is the transcript for the Live Dialogue held yesterday night [from 11:30 pm] at Islam Online pertaining to the Darfur issue.

The guest answering questions was Dr. Mansour Muhammed Hassan who recently returned from a 20 day trip to Darfur in Sudan where he was the head of the medical aid mission sent by Egypt’s Medical Doctors’ Syndicate between July 2 – 23, 2004.

Dr. Hassan also visited the south of Sudan with a similar mission in April.

He is a 1979 graduate of Alexandria University’s Faculty of Medicine and is currently a consultant in pediatrics in Alexandria, Egypt. He is also the secretary general of Alexandria’s Medical Doctors’ Syndicate.

Dr. Hassan welcomes your questions about the humanitarian situation in Darfur and in the south of Sudan.

Hope it is useful. Wassalam.

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