Interesting take on the 'teddy row'

    Red faces in Sudan over teddy row
    By Jonah Fisher
    Former BBC Khartoum correspondent

    Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir speaks in Khartoum after pardoning Gillian Gibbons
    President al-Bashir had been under huge pressure to intervene

    Just over a week ago it was hard to imagine how the international reputation of the Sudanese government could sink any lower.

    Accused of sponsoring the killing and rape of hundreds of thousands of its own people in Darfur and then of blocking the peacekeepers who might protect them - barely a week passed without a threat of sanctions or a new UN resolution.

    But thanks to the Gillian Gibbons saga, Sudan has managed to transform its public image from pariah state to something approaching a laughing stock.

    read the rest (and watch a statement by Ms Gibbons) here
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