Emma McCune (1964 in India - 1993 in Nairobi) was an expatriate British foreign aid worker in Sudan who married guerrilla leader Riek Machar. She was killed in a car accident in Kenya. McCune was born in India to ex-colonial parents who could not adjust to life in England after their return. Eventually her parents divorced and her father committed suicide. In 1985 Emma flew to Australia and back in a single engined light aircraft with her friend Bill Hall. Wikipedia
ABOUT THIS BOOK Tall, striking and adventurous, young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference in a country decimated by the longest-running civil war in Africa. www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375703...
"Emma's War" by Deborah Scroggins When a beautiful, idealistic Western aid worker fell in love with a Sudanese warlord, a terrible tragedy of hunger and violence was set in motion. dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/12/11/scroggins/ind...
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