The decision of the British in 1956 to attach southern Sudan to the ethnically distinct north rather than to allow it to form part of a west African union was an important factor behind the problems that have troubled the area ever since.That is Ed Pilkington, the Guardian's New York correspondent.
West Africa?
LOL. I was thinking the same thing
ReplyDeleteNot weird. Just wrong. Why can't we have a press corps that does rudimentary fact checks, or even better, journalists with a vague sense of geography.
ReplyDeleteI was desperately hoping that it was actually bizarrely true. Surely Guardian journalists aren't that stupid and that wrong?
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