Saturday, May 22, 2004
Where in the world is Equatoria?
No, that's not a bad takeoff on Carmen Sandiego (well ok it is). But it was also my response to reading this article on a breakout of Ebola in Equatoria...Western Equatoria.
Well as I learned, Equatoria is a province of Sudan. Charles "Chinese" Gordon was its governor for a short while. A map of the Sudan is shown on this site. Equatoria is located in the southwest of Sudan with a capital at Yambio.
On a somewhat different note, while genocide in the Darfur region has been in the news recently (for instance see this), in the Sudanese civil war, Christian militant groups apparently recently expelled Arab (=Muslim?) government groups from Equatoria.
I'm happy I live in the US.
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No, that's not a bad takeoff on Carmen Sandiego (well ok it is). But it was also my response to reading this article on a breakout of Ebola in Equatoria...Western Equatoria.
Well as I learned, Equatoria is a province of Sudan. Charles "Chinese" Gordon was its governor for a short while. A map of the Sudan is shown on this site. Equatoria is located in the southwest of Sudan with a capital at Yambio.
On a somewhat different note, while genocide in the Darfur region has been in the news recently (for instance see this), in the Sudanese civil war, Christian militant groups apparently recently expelled Arab (=Muslim?) government groups from Equatoria.
I'm happy I live in the US.
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