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Article: Nothing in Sudan is ever quite what it seems... Liverpool public relations consultant and former ECHO deputy editor Jon Brown spent six months teaching in a school in Sudan. Here he offers his insight into arrested teacher Gillian Gibbons' plight.(News)
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- Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- November 28, 2007
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Byline: Jon Brown
SUDAN was once described to me, for not entirely geographic reasons, as the armpit of Africa.
It is an unforgiving country for reasons that become clear once you are there: the ferocious climate; the sandstorms and flies; the fractured infrastructure that means it can take a day to travel 100 miles.
Sudan is also an unforgiving country because of the risks to which one is exposed as a direct result of the cultural divide between most western people and the Sudanese themselves.
The divide is borne out of a complex cocktail of historical, ethnic ...