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Sudan
[ soo-dan ]
noun
- a region in North Africa, south of the Sahara and Libyan Deserts, extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
- Republic of the Sudan, a republic in northeastern Africa, south of Egypt and bordering on the Red Sea: a former condominium of Egypt and Great Britain. 728,215 square miles (1,886,068 square kilometers). : Khartoum. Also called North Sudan. Formerly An·glo-E·gyp·tian Sudan [ang, -gloh-i-, jip, -sh, uh, n].
Sudan
/ -ˈdæn; suːˈdɑːn /
noun
- a republic in NE Africa, on the Red Sea: conquered by Mehemet Ali of Egypt (1820–22) and made an Anglo-Egyptian condominium in 1899 after joint forces defeated the Mahdist revolt; became a republic in 1956; a lengthy civil war between separatists in the mainly Christian south and the government resulted in independence for South Sudan following a referendum in 2011. It consists mainly of a plateau, with the Nubian Desert in the north. Official language: Arabic. Official religion: Muslim; there are Christian and animist minorities. Currency: Sudanese pound or Sudani (replacing the Sudanese dinar in 2007). Capital: Khartoum. Pop: 34 847 910 (2013 est). Area: 1 861 484 sq km (718 723 sq miles) Former name (1899–1956)Anglo-Egyptian Sudan French nameSoudan
- the Sudana region stretching across Africa south of the Sahara and north of the tropical zone: inhabited chiefly by Negroid tribes rather than Arabs
Sudan
- Republic in northeastern Africa , bordered on the north by Egypt (see also Egypt ); on the east by the Red Sea and Ethiopia ; on the south by Kenya , Uganda , and Democratic Republic of Congo ; and on the west by the Central African Republic, Chad , and Libya . Its capital is Khartoum , and its largest city is Omdurman.
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The charity also works in other countries affected by war, including Ukraine, South Sudan and Azerbaijan.
Fatima, who is from Sudan, found out she had lung cancer in January and had surgery in March to remove a tumour and is due to start a long course of chemotherapy treatment.
Once the commercial heart and seat of Sudan's government, Khartoum is now a burnt-out shell.
The 60-year-old Ukrainian ended up in a terrifying and deadly situation in South Sudan when what seemed like a routine operation for the UN earlier this month turned into the most dramatic of his career.
The UN has been warning that South Sudan is on the brink of a return to civil war following an escalation of conflict between Machar and the president that has been building for weeks.
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