a country of about 4 million.

Golemon said Befus once told him he spent as much time working on generators as he did caring for patients. Sometimes, while he was operating, he had to decide whether to keep lights on or keep medical equipment running.

By the late 1980s, the difficulties intensified. Befus tried to maintain the clinic through a series of civil wars that eventually left more than 200,000 Liberians dead and many more refugees. Though the family evacuated during the worst fighting, Befus always tried to stay, Sue Befus said, and rebuild the war-torn compound.

But in 1996, Befus came close to joining the ranks of Liberian refugees. He and several colleagues managed to escape rebel factions that overtook the compound. They walked 13 miles to the U.S. Embassy,past week”.

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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, spoke on the phone to his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to discuss the crash, the Kremlin said in a statement. Sisi offered deep condolences and Putin promised the widest possible participation of Russian specialists in the investigation into the cause of the crash, the Kremlin said.

Distraught relatives gathered throughout Saturday at St Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport, where the flight had been due to land at 12.10pm local time. The youngest victim of the crash was believed to be 10 months old.

Viktoria Sevryukova, 24, was another of the names on a passenger list published by Russia’s Association of Tour Operators. She had posted photographs of herself relaxing on the beach during