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Somali doctors open war-scarred nation's only public blood bank

Mohamed Abdi Hussein donates blood next to Rage Moalin Ali at the Benadir Blood Service, in Mogadishu. [Reuters]

When Somalia's biggest bomb blast killed more than 500 people in 2017, Dr. Ahmed Abdikadir Mohamed watched helplessly as many of the injured bled to death.

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