US doctor is stabbed to death in front of family amid Sudan unrest

KARAH RUCKER: A DOCTOR WHO WENT BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN PRACTICING IN IOWA AND SUDAN HAS BEEN KILLED – STABBED TO DEATH IN FRONT OF HIS PARENTS, WIFE, AND TWO CHILDREN WHEN TRYING TO ESCAPE THE UNREST IN SUDAN. 

49-YEAR-OLD “BUSHRA SULIEMAN” WAS FATALLY STABBED OUTSIDE OF HIS SUDAN RESIDENCE – THE DOCTOR HAD BEEN TREATING THOSE WOUNDED IN THE FIGHTING IN THE DAYS LEADING UP TO HIS DEATH. 

1. SULIEMAN WAS IN SUDAN TO TRAIN OTHER DOCTORS – A PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM. SULIEMAN — A DUAL NATIONAL OF THE U.S. AND SUDAN — WOULD PRACTICE MEDICINE BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN IOWA AND AFRICA. HE IS THE SECOND KNOWN AMERICAN TO DIE IN THE MIDST OF SUDAN’S UPHEAVAL.

THE DOCTOR IS AMONG HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST IN SUDAN IN RECENT WEEKS —

AMID FIGHTING BETWEEN TWO MILITARY COMMANDERS IN THE AFRICAN NATION. 

AS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WORKS TO EVACUATE PRIVATE AMERICANS  – THE UNITED NATIONS IS NOW WARNING OF A MASSIVE REFUGEE CRISIS – AS THE TWO GENERALS CONTINUE TO BATTLE OVER THE REGION. 

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY BEEN DISPLACED, DUE TO THE VIOLENCE. THE U.N. SAYS 800-THOUSAND MORE COULD FLEE SUDAN IF THE FIGHTING CONTINUES. THIS WOULD PUT MORE STRAIN ON NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES ALREADY TAKING IN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.

INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO GARNER A PEACE DEAL BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES ARE GROWING MORE URGENT AS SUDAN REACHES WHAT THE U-N DESCRIBES AS A “BREAKING POINT”. A TOP U-N AID SAYS WHAT WAS A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN THE REGION IS NOW A “FULL BLOWN CATASTROPHE.”