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Eritrean refugees in the Sudan are settled in five zones, including the capital Khartoum, but mostly in the east near the Eritrean frontier. Some of the refugees, mostly senior citizens, women and children, subsist on food aid in camps administered by UNHCR. Close to 35 percent of these households are women headed. The overwhelming majority of the refugees want to return back as soon as possible... they need assistance with transport and with getting themselves re-established. The first phase of a $260 million program for refugee reintegration and rehabilitation of resettlement areas in Eritrea (PROFERI) was due to start in July 1993. However, only $32.5 million of the $111 million needed for the first phase was raised.
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China, the biggest buyer of Sudan's oil and a prime source of development aid, is the only country whose opinion really matters to Bashir. China has blocked sanctions against Sudan in the U.N.
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Sudan has a rich reef's life as well as submarine history: The Commandant Cousteau has chosen it to settle his "houses under the sea". The Umbria, Italian ship scuttled in 1940 when Italy got into war is a magnificent wreck today. Follow the guide to discover engine-room, bombs and ammunitions freights, under the inquisitive look of the Arabian angel fish
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Sudan has borders with the countries of Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Chad, and Libya. It ... has a coast on the Red Sea.
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Sudan's primary resources are agricultural, but oil production and export have taken on greater importance since October 2000. Although the country is trying to diversify its cash crops, cotton, and gum arabic remain its major agricultural exports. Grain sorghum (dura) is the principal food crop, and millet and wheat are grown for domestic consumption. Sesame seeds and peanuts are cultivated for domestic consumption and increasingly for export. Livestock production has vast potential, and many animals, particularly camels and sheep, are exported to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab countries. However, Sudan remains a net importer of food.
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Sudan, Africa's most expansive state, remains the scene of a brutal civil war that has claimed two million lives and has witnessed the rekindling of the black slave trade. A minority regime in Khartoum has been for years trying to Arabise and Islamise the Africans in Sudan who are Christians, moderate Muslims, and practitioners of traditional faiths. As part of its war effort, Khartoum's forces storm African villages, kill the men and take women and children as slaves. The boys tend cattle; the women and girls are raped. Slaves are typically forced to become Muslims.
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