Daniel Tarantola1. 1. Daniel Tarantola is a global health consultant living in France and is also an adjunct research professor at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. He was one of the last few French doctors who were able to leave Biafra on a mercy flight at the end of his term of voluntary service in 1969. The nine remaining French Red Cross colleagues were captured by Nigerian troops, briefly detained under house arrest for having entered Nigeria illegally, summarily judged in a court of law, and, shortly thereafter, discreetly exfiltrated and repatriated.