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Hello, during the summer we're using Sunday's newscast

as an opportunity to have a long in-depth chat

with an interesting person every week. And this week's chat is with

Dr Natalie Roberts, who's Executive Director of Medicine Sont frontier, Doctors Without Borders,

the French Medical Charity, which provides help in trouble spots

around the world, whether it's places that have been affected by war or natural disasters.

Dr Roberts started out in the NHS before she then went into the NGO world and she

now from her perch as the executive director has a bird's eye view of all the stuff that her charity does around the world and also some of the

problems that emerge as a result of that. So here's the conversation I had with her a couple of days ago.

Newscast.

Newscast from the BBC.

Dr. Roberts, hello.

Hi.

Where was the last place you were abroad? The last place I was, I went to North Nigeria at the end of last year.

And what was happening there?

So North Nigeria has been now for over a decade in a massive malnutrition crisis. We used to hear a lot about the

northeast of Nigeria, who's a Borneo state where there was the Chibot girls and Boca

Haram and everything else. The mass kidnapping and so back in 2016 I actually worked there an awful lot but

actually across the whole of northern Nigeria there's a huge amount of violence

conflict to extreme level and it's one of those things you never hear about in the UK.

So I went to go and see how that was going on in the northwest of Nigeria.

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