The only doctor in the Nuba Mountains has married a woman from the community in which he has been working for the last eight years, according to social media reports.
Tom Catena is a surgeon from the United States who practices at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, South Kordofan State, in spite of restrictions on humanitarian aid in the area imposed by the Sudanese government.
Catena and his Sudanese bride Nasma were wed on 6 May in accordance with all of the traditional customs including payment of a dowry of several cows and a ceremony attended by the villagers.