TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY LAETITIA PERON
Ghanean medical student Kamal Umar Labavan works in his room on December 5, 2014 at the University of Medicine in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. Now he is studying at the University of Donetsk, in a city that has become the main stronghold of pro-Russian separatists fighting a violent eight-month war against government forces that has claimed at least 4,300 lives. The university says there were more than 2,000 foreign students from 57 countries studying here before the war in the medicine, dentistry and pharmacy departments. Only 84 students are still here. Most came from the Middle East, Africa or former Soviet republics -- attracted by low fees and a good reputation, said Bogdan Bogdanov, the 43-year-old head of the medical faculty. AFP PHOTO / ERIC FEFERBERG (Photo credit should read ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images)
