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Article: Unrealistic portrait of life in Sudan?(Commentary)(Forum)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 25, 1996
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According to the Sudanese ambassador to the United States, Mahdi Ibrahim Mohamed, "the authentic portrait of Sudan is rosy," contrary to "the portrait painted in the Western media and reinforced by honorable members of Congress and the executive branch in the United States." The ambassador insists that the Sudan is "a blossoming democracy" being blemished by malevolent American journalists, legislators and administrators.
The country is losing millions of its citizens as refugees to the Diaspora. More than one-third of Sudan's population survives on humanitarian relief assistance to which the American taxpayer has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars in ...