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1st September 2016 Khartoum

British Ambassador to Khartoum

Darfur: A green and pleasant land

Darfur: A green and pleasant land Last month I visited Darfur for the first time. My first impression was how green and beautiful Darfur is. We flew to Nyala via El Geneina in West Darfur and flying over Darfur I was amazed how green the countryside is at this time of year. Driving along the […]

7th September 2015 Khartoum

by Michael Aron

British Ambassador to Khartoum

Back in Sudan Again

The first question almost everybody has asked me since I arrived back in Sudan after a gap of over 30 years is ‘has Sudan changed?’ I was last here in the early 1980s teaching English in a Secondary School in the northern town of Ed Damer. There are of course lots of new buildings in […]