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2 unusual facts about Derek Plumbly


Derek Plumbly

In February 2008 he was appointed by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to head the Assessment and Evaluation Commission, charged with monitoring the implementation of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Plumbly went on to study Arabic, first in Shemlan, Lebanon, where he lived with a family for a year and a half, and then at the University of Jordan with the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war.



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