told to leave Sudan

AMERICAN Jesuits in that order's "toughest mission" have been told to leave southern Sudan because of an imminent battle pitting Ethiopian-supplied rebels against the government forces. But the principal of a Jesuit school there says he wants to return as soon as possible.
David Fischer, US State Department director for East Africa, confirmed on April 3 that the US Embassy in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, asked the Jesuits to remove their missionaries from the southern town of Wau. There are said to be five American Jesuits in Wau — two secondary teachers and three teachers at a nearby seminary.
Others, including Jesuit Fr Norman Dickson, principal of the Loyola Secondary School, had already left because the school term had ended in November.
Although the former superior general of the Jesuits, Fr Pedro Arrupe, once called Sudan the "toughest Jesuit mission in the world", Fr Dickson said he hopes to return this May. '