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Sudan: Gallows humour

Written byLuisetta Mudie
Posted 28 September 2005 20 years ago

To an aid worker in Darfur whose boyfriend hasn't e-mailed her for a week: “It's not you, he's probably just been abducted by rebels.” This, reports Sleepless in Sudan, became a running joke among NGO workers for a while–until someone's boyfriend was abducted by rebels.

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