Far in the waste Sudan on assignment in Africa
Title:
Far in the waste Sudan on assignment in Africa
Author:
Coghlan, Nicholas, 1954-
ISBN:
9780773529359
9780773573024
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (341 p.) : ill., maps.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Cover13; -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Khartoum -- 2 In the Oilfields: Fuelling the Fire? -- 3 Operation Lifeline Sudan -- 4 Victims -- 5 Northern Lights: Conversations with the Elite -- 6 The Borderline: Government-Held South Sudan -- 7 Behind Rebel Lines -- 8 Fallen Empires -- 9 Southern Voices -- 10 The Contested Areas -- 11 The Wild West -- 12 The East -- 13 Leaving Khartoum -- Epilogue: Sunset over Fashoda -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Modern Sudanese History -- Acronyms -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
In 2000, with controversy raging over the presence in Sudan of Talisman Energy, Canada's largest independent oil and gas producer, Ottawa decided to open a post in Khartoum. Nicholas Coghlan was recalled from assignment in Colombia to set up and run Canada's first diplomatic post in the largest country in Africa. "In diplomatic circles, you cry when you hear you've been posted to Sudan," says Coghlan. "But you cry even more when you leave." Far in the Waste Sudan weaves together a personal and political account of Coghlan's three-year appointment.
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