Collapse of a Country
A Diplomat's Memoir of South Sudan
1st Edition
Published on 4. September 2017
336 pages
978-0-7735-5179-4 (ISBN)
Description
A rare first-hand account of the violent implosion and ongoing humanitarian tragedy of the world's youngest state.
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09/2017
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Coghlan Nicholas:
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, BNicholas Coghlan, author of Far in the Waste Sudan and The Saddest Country, served in five Canadian embassies overseas before he was appointed Canada's first resident ambassador to South Sudan. He lives on his sailboat in Canada's Pacific Northwest.
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, BNicholas Coghlan, author of Far in the Waste Sudan and The Saddest Country, served in five Canadian embassies overseas before he was appointed Canada's first resident ambassador to South Sudan. He lives on his sailboat in Canada's Pacific Northwest.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Maps
- Illustrations I
- Illustrations II
- Prologue
- 1: Jihad and Crusade
- 2: A Garage by the Nile
- 3: I Never Thought It Would Be So Messy
- 4: The Murle War
- 5: Babies and Mothers
- 6: The Refuge-Seekers
- 7: These Are SPLM Ladies
- 8: The Knives Are Out
- 9: Juba Implodes
- 10: A Fight in Your Living Room
- 11: The Echo of Mille Collines
- 12: Communing with the Sky God
- 13: Maybe You Should Leave Now
- 14: Snakes Are Available
- 15: How Long Must We Suffer?
- 16: Riek Returns
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: South Sudan: A Chronology
- Appendix B: Acronyms
- Notes
- Index
