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Sudan

Sudan is a country in northern Africa, the capital city is Khartoum.

Sudan

a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956 a region of northern Africa to the south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea

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Simple sentences

Polish archaeologists are conducting scientific studies in Sudan.

Movie subtitles

We are the lost boys of the Sudan!
So I don't have to go up to Father in that beastly hot Sudan.
Her father's Governor of the Sudan.
Move up, up the Nile. Leave Egypt behind and the green land. Enter the Sudan.
Our history might have taken a quite different turn. had Colonel William Hicks not forgotten, if he ever knew. the Sudan's great fact-- its immensity.
It's over a month's travel from the Sudan, sir. so, obviously, I left before these events took place. but I assume they're true.
The Mahdi is the most extraordinary man. the Sudan's ever seen.
I wouldn't spend one British life. to oppose the Mahdi, not in the Sudan.
Yes, remember, without a single British soldier. he ended slavery in the Sudan.
Gordon, the Sudan was your child.
That you go to the Sudan. supervise the evacuation of Khartoum. do what you can to leave peace and order behind.
I'll see Sir Evelyn Baring in Cairo. brings pressure on the Khedive. to appoint you Governor General of the Sudan. but I cannot and will not back you up.
If you can help the Sudan, your country will be grateful.
You'd like to take Zobeir with you to Khartoum. to give him control over the Sudan.
This is better than Sudan.
These standards may look like rags to you. but men have wrapped themselves in them and died. in Senegal, in the Sudan, at Dienbienphu.
Sudan revealed evidence, uh, Wednesday night that Colonel Hernando Escalante of Libya is trying to fly troops and arms. and legs. to Uganda to assist president Adi Amin.
I was transporting guns across the Sudan border by camel.
No, this is the Sudan, 1885.
And so we've sort of recreated the Sudan in 1885.
The Sudan. 11 months in the bush.
She was from the Sudan.
Brody's got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan. He speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom. He'll blend in, disappear.
It all comes to El Gaa. Salt from Sudan, ostrich feathers, even leopard skins.
You, my friend, are shooting for the Sudan.
GuatemaIa, Sudan, Cyprus..
You could tell her about the irrigation ditches you dug in Sudan. The orphan babies who cried in your arms in...Romania.
What he's gonna say next is there's people starving in the Sudan.
Dad's been transferred to the Sudan.
Sudan relieved!
My guide was from the Sudan Police and regarded this ancient centre of his culture as a New Zealander might regard Rome.
Me in Sudan Police.
Brody's got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan. He speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom.
He was posted to the Sudan, found himself assigned to lead a futile attack against the sultan's forces.
The information's coming very quickly from our people in Angola and Sudan.
A shipment has just left for Sudan.
Isobel, did you know that William and I. are going into business together in the Sudan?
There's a large market in modernizing the armies in the Sudan. and providing them with boots.
Um, perhaps this is not the most appropriate moment, but when you get to the Sudan you're going to need an expert, and I'm your man. - Well, I want to know.
An army of Muhammadan fanatics under the command of their self-proclaimed messiah, the Mahdi has attacked a British fortress in the Sudan.

News and current affairs

When violence erupts in water-starved regions such as Darfur, Sudan, political leaders tend to view the problems in narrow political terms.
Moreover, compared to neighboring Eritrea under President Isaias Afewerki or Omar al-Bashir's Sudan, his regime was by no means the worst offender in the region.
Many of today's war zones - including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and Sudan - share basic problems that lie at the root of their conflicts.
None of it helps to address the underlying problems of poverty, child mortality, water scarcity, and lack of livelihoods in places like Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, Sudan's Darfur region, or Somalia.
In many conversations with South Sudan's president, Salva Kiir, we have discussed setting out a short list of clear priorities for the new state.
I have spent hundreds of hours working behind closed doors with various parties to the conflict - Sudan's Government, rebel leaders, neighbouring countries, and African Union partners.
Emboldened by the warrant and its elusive suggestion of international support, the Darfuri rebels, the Justice and Equality Movement, have walked out of peace talks with Sudan's government.
The idea is that deferring the warrant will give the Security Council leverage over Sudan.
Darfur itself is a region of Western Sudan comprised of Arab and African Muslims.
Conflict erupted in early 2003 when rebels of the Sudan Liberation Movement attacked government troops in an effort to gain greater autonomy and resources for their region.
Sudan government aircraft and government-supported troops (known as jangaweed) retaliated against not only armed rebels but also against civilians deemed to be supporting them.
UN Security Council Resolution 1564, passed on 18 September 2004, reserves the bulk of its criticism for the government of Sudan.
For example, refugees leaving Sudan can strain the stability of neighboring Chad.
The current test case is the situation in Sudan's Darfur region, where diplomats are trying to establish a joint peacekeeping force under the UN and the African Union.
Reform is in the air - in part because of the scandal, but also because of the UN's inability to deal effectively with challenges ranging from Rwanda and Kosovo to Iraq and, most recently, Sudan.
After all, Sudan is the size of Western Europe, and Darfur is the size of France, with 158 refugee camps.
Nor is it clear whether its aim is to pressure Sudan into changing its policy or to bring about wholesale regime change.
I have been to Sudan twice, and, as part of a delegation organized by Conscience International, I also visited the refugee camps in Nyala and El Fasher in Darfur.
After all, the Court has no means of its own to arrest anyone in Sudan, much less a head of state who commands the country's armed forces.
Nor is there any prospect that someone else will intervene in Sudan to make an arrest.
China has traded much investment in physical infrastructure in places otherwise shunned - Angola, Sudan, and Zimbabwe - for access to natural resources.
Factions within the regime might prove supportive of new policies aimed at tempering the climate of violence in Sudan, decreasing its trade dependency on China, improving conditions for refugees, and lowering international tensions.
LONDON - Earlier this month, the International Criminal Court (ICC) upheld the request of the court's chief prosecutor to issue an arrest warrant for Omar el-Bashir, the President of Sudan, charging him with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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