Tigray War Forces Professor to Wonder if Family Still Alive

摘要

Mulugeta Gebregziabher, a biostatistician and professor at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), has contended with more than a global pandemic this year. He doesn't know if his family is still alive. Twenty years ago, Gebregziabher and his wife left their hometown of Adwa, Ethiopia, for a better life in the United States. Now, there is a war in die Tigray region of Ethiopia, where his mother, brother, three sisters, and wife's family still live. Gebregziabher has not spoken to his 79-year-old mother in more than four months.