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                               In September 2000, 'The Sunday Telegraph' newspaper 
                                in Britain published an article written by Christian 
                                Lamb alleging that Mr Abdel Mahmoud al-Koronky, 
                                a senior Sudanese diplomat who had served as Sudan's 
                                Charge d'Affaires in London between September 
                                1998 and April 2000, had kept a "slave girl" 
                                in his house 
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