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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — When 10-month-old Memunatu was brought aboard the Global Mercy\u2122, her life hung in the balance. A massive tumor had engulfed her neck, making it nearly impossible for her to eat, swallow, or even cry. Her mother, Aminata, had sought help from several doctors across Sierra Leone — but all had told her nothing could be done. That changed when she met a volunteer nurse from South Africa who connected her to Mercy Ships, the international faith-based organization known for…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — When 10-month-old Memunatu was brought aboard the Global Mercy\u2122, her life hung in the balance. A massive tumor had engulfed her neck, making it nearly impossible for her to eat, swallow, or even cry. Her mother, Aminata, had sought help from several doctors across Sierra Leone — but all had told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,7331,1359,16546,4712,19905,9493,257,10641,11114,6571,1135,254,12008],"class_list":["post-212654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-baby","tag-freetown","tag-leonean","tag-liberia","tag-lifesaving","tag-mercy","tag-news","tag-saves","tag-ship","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surgery"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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