(NPR) – “We woke up from bombs being dropped on the military base two blocks away [from our home],” says Ali, adding that his medical school and many hospitals were also bombed. “I had to flee my home.”

For over 600 days, civil war has ravaged Sudan. The violence has killed at least 60,000 people, according to a report issued in November by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Sudan Research Group, and more than half the country faces starvation.

Ali is one of 3 million people who have fled Sudan. He’s in Saudi Arabia now — and his medical education is in limbo. (Read More)