A powerhouse US doctor slain in Sudan, 'killed for nothing'
Source: Associated Press
A powerhouse US doctor slain in Sudan, killed for nothing
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER
April 30, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) Bound to Sudan by ailing parents and his devotion to treating the poor there, American doctor Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman kept working as long as he could after fighting engulfed Sudans capital.
For days after battles between two rival Sudanese commanders erupted in Khartoum on April 15, the 49-year-old Sulieman treated the citys wounded. He and other doctors ventured out as explosions shook the walls of homes where Khartoums people cowered inside. Gunfire between the two factions battling for control resounded in the streets.
Say, Nothing will happen to us except what God has decreed for us, Sulieman, a U.S.-born gastroenterologist who divided his time and work between Iowa City, Iowa, and Khartoum, said in one of his last messages to worried friends on Facebook last week, as fighting persisted. And in God let the believers put their trust.
The morning that Sulieman decided he had to risk the dangerous escape from Sudans capital with his parents, American wife and his two American children was the morning that the war found Sulieman, friends say.
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