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  • The country was in essence a mountain massif that rose from the three deserts of Somaliland, Danakil, and Sudan.†   (source)
  • In 1992, he spoke out against the Saudi government and was banished to Sudan.†   (source)
  • "Sudan," he said to me.†   (source)
  • Then I read about Darfur, where hundreds of thousands are dying in the Sudan.†   (source)
  • We can honeymoon in the Sudan!†   (source)
  • It is stupid setting up as a banker in Kenya or the Sudan.†   (source)
  • I am here to talk to you about a project for southern Sudan.†   (source)
  • Uncle, when you go back to Sudan, you might meet my parents somewhere.†   (source)
  • Sudan and Rochester, New York, 2003-2007†   (source)
  • Ethiopia—Sudan—Kenya, 1991-92 Hundreds of people lined the riverbank.†   (source)
  • Unlike southern Sudan, it seemed that here in America every road was paved.†   (source)
  • Salva immediately began planning to travel to Sudan.†   (source)
  • At the same time, the memories of his life in Sudan were very distant.†   (source)
  • The clinic where his father was recovering was in a remote part of southern Sudan.†   (source)
  • The fighting was scattered all around southern Sudan, and now the war had come to where Salva lived.†   (source)
  • They are driving us back to Sudan, Salva thought.†   (source)
  • And an idea came to him—an idea of what he might be able to do to help the people of Sudan.†   (source)
  • "East of Sudan is Ethiopia:' Salva stopped walking.†   (source)
  • Leaving the airport felt like leaving his old life forever—Sudan, his village, his family….†   (source)
  • We crossed the Sudan border by early evening.†   (source)
  • The boys were from Kosovo, Bosnia, Liberia, Sudan, and Iraq.†   (source)
  • Kamau is organizing medical volunteers to work with him in Sudan.†   (source)
  • McCormick and Baron arrived in southern Sudan in a light plane flown by two terrified bush pilots.†   (source)
  • I took a bus to Port Sudan, and then Sudan Airways to Khartoum.†   (source)
  • Yet that never happened, and the crisis in Sudan passed away unnoticed by the world at large.†   (source)
  • "The Lost Boys of Sudan want to practice soccer in their new hometown of Clarkston," Pickel wrote.†   (source)
  • The Ebolas were named Ebola Zaire and Ebola Sudan.†   (source)
  • I remembered the story of him in Sudan, hunting Ebola virus.†   (source)
  • He traveled to Sudan in the company of another C.D.C. doctor named Roy Baron.†   (source)
  • The Ebola Zaire strain was nearly twice as lethal as Ebola Sudan.†   (source)
  • G. A hot strain radiated out of him and nearly devastated the human population of southern Sudan.†   (source)
  • The people of that area in southern Sudan are the Zande, a large tribe.†   (source)
  • Should he leave Sudan now, get himself to a hospital?†   (source)
  • What happened in Sudan could be compared to the secret detonation of an atomic bomb.†   (source)
  • From a man named Boniface who died in Sudan.†   (source)
  • There was another possible reason why the Ebola Sudan virus vanished.†   (source)
  • When friends of ours were traveling in an isolated area of the Sudan, they met villagers who asked them about Cassie and wanted to set up a memorial for her.†   (source)
  • He had a vague idea that he would like to return to Sudan someday, to help the people who lived there.†   (source)
  • 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?†   (source)
  • CHAPTER EIGHT, Southern Sudan, 2008†   (source)
  • In Kampala, it took him two days to get through customs and immigration before he could board a smaller plane to go to Juba, in southern Sudan.†   (source)
  • Salva knew which river they meant: the Gilo River, which was along the border between Ethiopia and Sudan.†   (source)
  • I am going to take you to the refugee camp, but then I will return to Sudan, to fight in the war" Salva stopped walking and clutched at Uncle's arm.†   (source)
  • There is still war everywhere in Sudan.†   (source)
  • "We will soon come to the Nile River and cross to the other side:' The Nile: the longest river in the world, the mother of all life in Sudan.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Salva found that he could only think of his brothers and sisters as they were when he had last seen them, not as they would be now They were traveling through a part of Sudan still plagued by war.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Southern Sudan and Ethiopia, 1985†   (source)
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  • In Sudan, the British first passed a law against infibulation in 1925 and extended that to all cutting in 1946.†   (source)
  • Our assets informed us of a trail to be used to supply Aidid with Stinger missiles: Afghanistan to Sudan to Ethiopia to Somalia.†   (source)
  • We ourselves are sponsors through Plan, and we exchange letters and have visited our children in the Phillippines, Sudan, and Dominican Republic.†   (source)
  • THE DIKORIS WERE from the Nuba Mountains of central Sudan, an area the size of South Carolina, with more than a million inhabitants.†   (source)
  • I had rehearsed my lines in my head as I walked out of Asmara, walked all the way to the Sudan; I'd rehearsed them so many times since.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • In carrying his textbook with me from Addis to Sudan and Kenya and then to America, I had developed a grudging respect for the author.†   (source)
  • The boys came from Liberia, Kosovo, Sudan, Somalia, Burundi, Bosnia, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan, and while most spoke functional English, they had little in common with one another.†   (source)
  • Now the test is whether her model will succeed as well in Somalia, Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia, and Central African Republic--some of which are wracked by conflict that makes work in these countries dangerous.†   (source)
  • Pull back again, and the blue oceans come into view, then other continents and countries—Congo, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq—all looking deceptively serene.†   (source)
  • She had read a column Nick had written from Khartoum, Sudan, about a teenage girl with an obstetric fistula, noting that the administration was now crippling one of the few organizations helping such girls.†   (source)
  • The umbilical cord that had connected her to the Society of Holy Child Order, to the Sudan Interior Mission, had shriveled and fallen off.†   (source)
  • Then in Sudan, I was even lower than that—I was no better than a bariya," she said, using the slang word for "slave."†   (source)
  • Nyok, who lived in Clarkston, was one of the Lost Boys, a group of young men from southern Sudan who had been separated from their families during a civil war between the Muslim and Arab north and the Christian and African south.†   (source)
  • She'd point down to the Red Sea and say, "Imagine that ribbon of water running up like a slit in a skirt, separating Saudi Arabia from Sudan, then farther up keeping Jordan away from Egypt.†   (source)
  • Unlike many in the better-known—to outsiders—regions of southern Sudan and Darfur, the collection of ethnic groups of the Nuba region put a premium on being left alone over political independence from Sudan's central government.†   (source)
  • A young member of the Lost Boys of Sudan, the 3,800 refugees who resettled in the United States after a twelve-year flight through the desert and scrub of war-ravaged Sudan, died after getting bludgeoned by another Sudanese refugee in a fight over ten dollars.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Rather, I left on Wednesday, January 10, 1979, the day news spread through the city like influenza that four Eritrean guerrillas posing as passengers had commandeered an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 707 and forced it to fly to Khartoum, Sudan.†   (source)
  • In the main service, immigrants and refugees from Togo, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Liberia, and Sudan, some in colorful native garb, worship alongside silver-haired white southern women in their Sunday best.†   (source)
  • World Relief and the International Rescue Committee opened offices in Clarkston to better serve the newcomers, and resettled still more refugees—now from war-ravaged African countries including Liberia, Congo, Burundi, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Eventually, the Dikori family decided to leave and to join the tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees streaming into Egypt in search of, if not economic opportunity, at least a respite from the overt and relentless persecution of Africans and Christians in the Sudan.†   (source)
  • After a failed assassination attempt in Addis Ababa that he blamed on the Sudanese government, the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak had rescinded a treaty between Sudan and Egypt that allowed unfettered passage between the two countries; entering Egypt for most Sudanese now meant entering illegally.†   (source)
  • The Sudan strain was more than twice as lethal as Marburg virus—its case-fatality rate was 50 percent.†   (source)
  • If that goal was scored by a young refugee from Liberia, off an assist from a boy from southern Sudan, who was set up by a player from Burundi or a Kurd from Iraq—on a field in Georgia, U.S.A., no less—understanding its origins would mean following the thread of causation back in time to events that long preceded the first whistle.†   (source)
  • So the three sisters—Marburg, Ebola Sudan, and Ebola Zaire—have been joined by a fourth sister, Reston.†   (source)
  • It is said he was the doctor assigned to go to Sudan, and it is said he was afraid to proceed any farther.†   (source)
  • It passed through as many as sixteen generations of infection as it jumped from person to person in Sudan.†   (source)
  • As in Sudan, the emergence of a life form that could in theory have gone around the earth began with one infected person.†   (source)
  • Most of the fatal cases of Ebola Sudan can be traced back through chains of infection to the quiet Mr. Yu.†   (source)
  • In Sudan, thinking he was going to die of Ebola, he had discovered that a bottle of Scotch is the only good treatment for exposure to a filovirus.†   (source)
  • The situation was dangerous, not only because of the virus but because a civil war was going on in Sudan—the area where Ebola raged also happened to be a war zone.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • In 1979, reports reached the C.D.C. that Ebola had come out of hiding and was burning once again in southern Sudan, in the same places where it had first appeared, in 1976.†   (source)
  • In his smoothest Texas voice, C. J. Peters said, "It's a rather rare viral disease that has been responsible for human fatalities in outbreaks in Zaire and Sudan within the past ten or twelve years."†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • If the Ebola Sudan virus had managed to spread out of central Africa, it might have entered Khartoum in a few weeks, penetrated Cairo a few weeks after that, and from there it would have hopped to Athens, New York, Paris, London, Singapore—it would have gone everywhere on the planet.†   (source)
  • The Ebola virus, in its Sudan incarnation, retreated to the heart of the bush, where undoubtedly it lives to this day, cycling and cycling in some unknown host, able to shift its shape, able to mutate and become a new thing, with the potential to enter the human species in a new form.†   (source)
  • Two days after he and his colleagues isolated Ebola virus for the first time, Karl Johnson headed for Africa in the company of two other C.D.C. doctors, along with seventeen boxes of gear, to try to organize an effort to stop the virus in Zaire and Sudan (the outbreak in Sudan was still going on).†   (source)
  • Ebola Sudan.†   (source)
  • A test for Ebola Sudan.†   (source)
  • In any case, the Ebola Sudan virus destroyed a few hundred people in central Africa the way a fire consumes a pile of straw—until the blaze burns out at the center and ends in a heap of ash—rather than smoldering around the planet, as Albs has done, like a fire in a coal mine, impossible to put out.†   (source)
  • Two months after the start of the Sudan emergence—the time was now early September 1976—an even more lethal filovirus emerged five hundred miles to the west, in a district of northern Zaire called Bumba Zone, an area of tropical rain forest populated by scattered villages and drained by the Ebola River.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • For he was from the Sudan Police, and regarded this ancient center of his culture as a New Zealander might regard Rome.†   (source)
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