'The Promising Half'

A Sudanese university enlists women to wage peace in a country marred by war

A bus crowded with talkative, exuberant young women winds its way along a dirt road, spraying plumes of fine dust over the mud-brick walls and patched-together tents of a refugee camp on the outskirts of the city. When the bus stops inside a fenced compound that houses a clinic, pharmacy, and multipurpose classroom, the women, who are all university students, gather in the shade of a lone tree, where they

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