The Surgeon Who Traded the Scalpel for a Mop

In 2015, Dr. Hawa Abdi — one of Somalia's first female surgeons and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee — ran a sprawling camp outside Mogadishu sheltering 90,000 displaced people. She could have practiced anywhere in the world. European hospitals courted her. Instead, she chose a compound with no reliable electricity, where she performed surgeries by flashlight and, when the need arose, cleaned latrines alongside her patients.…