Far in the Waste Sudan: On Assignment in Africa

by Nicholas Coghlan

In 2000, with controversy raging over the presence in Sudan of Canada's largest independent oil and gas producer, Ottawa decided to open a watching post in Khartoum. Nicholas Coghlan was recalled from his assignment in Columbia - another war zone - to set up and run the first diplomatic presence 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773529357
• ISBN13: 9780773529359
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"