Oil rich and on the divide between Africa and the Middle East, Sudan is one of Africa's most inaccessible countries. Coghlan takes the reader from Khartoum, former home of Carlos the Jackal and Osama bin-Laden, to the Nubian desert to the rebel-controlled swamps and jungle lowlands of Equatoria. He takes us with him to the mountain ranges of Darfur and the forgotten national park of Dinder and on a fifty-year old steel sailing dinghy racing on the Blue Nile.
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"This book is part travelogue, part political reportage, and part economic analysis with a dash of amateur anthropology and a soupcon of sociological speculation." Paul Waters, The Montreal Gazette Praise for The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Colombia: "Mr. Coghlan gave himself permission to venture outside the canape-and-cocktail circuit straight into the wilds of one of the world's most dangerous countries." The Globe and Mail
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The first Canadian diplomat to be posted in Khartoum offers an insider's view of war-torn Sudan at a turning point in its history.
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2 In the Oilfields: Fuelling the Fire? |
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3 Operation Lifeline Sudan |
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5 Northern Lights: Conversations with the Elite |
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6 The Borderline: Government-Held South Sudan |
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| 10 The Contested Areas |
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| 11 The Wild West |
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| 12 The East |
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| 13 Leaving Khartoum |
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| Epilogue: Sunset over Fashoda |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Chronology of Modern Sudanese History |
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| Acronyms |
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Nicholas Coghlan, author of The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Colombia, is the former consul general in Cape Town (South Africa) for Canada. He left this post in 2005 to sail the South Atlantic and South Pacific with his wife on their 8-metre sloop, B
