Sudan: Dutch Ambassador Swims in Nile for Drowning Issue

22 November 2015

Khartoum — Raising awareness against drowning in Sudan, Dutch Ambassador Susan Blankhart and a group of women swam across the Nile on Saturday. They reached the other side while cheered on by dozens of supporters of the event, on Twitter known as #CrossingTheNile.

Seven Dutch and seven Sudanese women accompanied the Ambassador during the swim of several hundred metres, in bright orange swimsuits bearing the Embassy's logo.

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