Bøger af J. Millard Burr

This book illustrates with great clarity the convoluted relationship that relief agencies had with the Sudanese government as they tried to negotiate the means of survival for the area's desperate population. It explores the complex and tangled course of events in the Sudan.

An account of the drought and the civil war in the Sudan, describing how attempts by international agencies and humanitarian organizations to provide food and medical relief have been thwarted by bureaucratic in-fighting, corruption, greed and ineptitude.

Throughout the 1990s, the Sudanese intellectual Hasan al-Turabi dominated not just domestic policy, during which time Sudan was transformed into an Islamic nation, but also foreign policy. In a power struggle, President al-Bashir and the military reassumed control over Sudan in 2003 and put al-Turabi, a former ally, under arrest.