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An IRC mobile health team caring for uprooted families in a camp in Yemen was there at the right time to help a young mother through a difficult delivery.

Podcaster Bilal Harry Khan discusses the challenges of growing up with his name in the UK.

My father fell in love with the name after Saddam Hussein gave it to his youngest daughter. My father, not a supporter of Hussein, nonetheless loved the way Abu Hala — “father of Hala” — sounded and the name stuck. Four years later, Saddam invaded Kuwait, a betrayal that has always felt peculiarly personal to me, given my namesake.

Many of my friends have similar stories. Amreena became “Am,” Aqeela became “Angela” and — my personal favourite — Widad Ahmed somehow transformed into “Woodward Anderson.”

One pilgrim was a Libyan woman, Suad Mohammed Barbush, 40, who delivered a baby boy at the Jabal Al Rahma Hospital and named him Arafat, after the holy mount.

While the second woman was a Guinean pilgrim named, Maimunah Ali, 23, who gave birth at the East Arafat Hospital on Saturday, hours after she and her husband, Abu Bakr, climbed Arafat in the morning as part of the Haj ritual. The new parents named their son, Mohammed Salman, after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Tasbeeh Herwees on her name.