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- He made Afghanistan a rallying point not only for the West, which wanted to stop the spread of communism from the Soviet Union, but also for Muslims from Sudan to Tajikistan, who saw it as a fellow Islamic country under attack from infidels.Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
- Southern Sudan, 2008Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- It is stupid setting up as a banker in Kenya or the Sudan.V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
- UNHCR provides assistance to more than twenty million displaced people around the world, not only in Afghanistan but also in places such as Colombia, Burundi, the Congo, Chad, and the Datfur region of Sudan.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Her Arabic and functional French helped her communicate with kids from the Middle East and Sudan, as well as the Congo and Burundi.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- Pressure from the United States and Egypt had led to his expulsion from a comfortable compound in Sudan.Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
- "Sudan," he said to me.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- On his way to Ethiopia, Mandela made stops in Tanganyika (where he experienced the absence of racial discrimination for the first time in his life) and in Sudan.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- Then I read about Darfur, where hundreds of thousands are dying in the Sudan.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
- Mount Elgon straddles the border between Uganda and Kenya, and is not far from Sudan.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- We can honeymoon in the Sudan!Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- The country was in essence a mountain massif that rose from the three deserts of Somaliland, Danakil, and Sudan.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- In Sudan, the average man receives one condom every five years.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- In Africa I was promised support by such men as Julius Nyerere, now President of Tanganyika; Mr. Kawawa, then Prime Minister of Tanganyika; Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia; General Abboud, President of the Sudan; Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia; Ben Bella, now President of Algeria; Modibo Keita, President of Mali; Leopold Senghor, President of Senegal; Sekou Toure, President of Guinea; President Tubman of Liberia; and Milton Obote, Prime Minister of Uganda.Nelson Mandela -- I Am Prepared to Die
- The Ebolas were named Ebola Zaire and Ebola Sudan.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- The umbilical cord that had connected her to the Society of Holy Child Order, to the Sudan Interior Mission, had shriveled and fallen off.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- Southern Sudan, 1985Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- The people of that area in southern Sudan are the Zande, a large tribe.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- It passed through as many as sixteen generations of infection as it jumped from person to person in Sudan.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- Most of the fatal cases of Ebola Sudan can be traced back through chains of infection to the quiet Mr. Yu.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- G. A hot strain radiated out of him and nearly devastated the human population of southern Sudan.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- The Sudan strain was more than twice as lethal as Marburg virus—its case-fatality rate was 50 percent.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- Yet that never happened, and the crisis in Sudan passed away unnoticed by the world at large.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- What happened in Sudan could be compared to the secret detonation of an atomic bomb.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- There was another possible reason why the Ebola Sudan virus vanished.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- The Ebola Zaire strain was nearly twice as lethal as Ebola Sudan.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- As in Sudan, the emergence of a life form that could in theory have gone around the earth began with one infected person.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- It is said he was the doctor assigned to go to Sudan, and it is said he was afraid to proceed any farther.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- The fighting was scattered all around southern Sudan, and now the war had come to where Salva lived.Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- Don’t you know that if we keep walking east, we’ll go all the way around the world and come right back here to Sudan?Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- "The Lost Boys of Sudan want to practice soccer in their new hometown of Clarkston," Pickel wrote.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- Most of the people who lived in the north were Muslim, and the government wanted all of Sudan to become a Muslim country—a place where the beliefs of Islam were followed.Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- On July 6, 1976, five hundred miles northwest of Mount Elgon, in southern Sudan, near the fingered edge of the central-African rain forest, a man who is known to Ebola hunters as Yu.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- Southern Sudan, 2008Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- Southern Sudan, 1985Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- Southern Sudan, 2008Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- Southern Sudan, 1985Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- Southern Sudan, 2008Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- Southern Sudan, 1985Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- Southern Sudan, 2008Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- Southern Sudan, 1985Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- Southern Sudan, 2008Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- Southern Sudan, 1985Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- Southern Sudan, 2008Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- He hadn’t realized that Menelik’s victory had inspired Marcus Garvey’s Back to Africa Movement, and that it had awakened Pan-African consciousness in Kenya, the Sudan, and the Congo.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- Salva did not understand much about it, but he knew that rebels from the southern part of Sudan, where he and his family lived, were fighting against the government, which was based in the north.Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
- She’d come to Addis Ababa from England after getting restless teaching in a convent school and running the student infirmary; she’d accepted a post with Sudan Interior Mission to work in Harrar, Ethiopia.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- His grave has been visited more than once by doctors from Europe and America, who want to see it and reflect on its meaning, and pay their respects to the index case of what later became known as Ebola Sudan.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- Kamau is organizing medical volunteers to work with him in Sudan.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
- Sudan also blocked aid groups from bringing into Darfur postexposure prophylaxis kits, which can greatly reduce the risk that a rape victim will be infected with HIV.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
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