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n. A camp or village of tents in an Arabic country.
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Duar is a large village in Koch County, Unity State, South Sudan. It is on the main oil road leading south from Bentiu, and is close to the Thar Jath Central Processing Facility in the Block 5A oil concession.
The village is in a Jagei Nuer region. A clinic operated by Médecins Sans Frontières was established in the village in 1989 by Dr. Jill Seaman to treat patients suffering from visceral leishmaniasis. The disease was spreading quickly, in part due to civil war, which was causing population movement, reducing resistance through malnutirition and hindering provision of control and treatment. On 27 June 1998 Duar was attacked by Paulino Matiep's SSUM militia. The Medecins Sans Frontieres compound was burned and destroyed, as were the school and the community offices. Paulino's forces raided cattle camps, killing the animals for food. About 25% of the population fled, some to islands in the Nile where they felt they would be safe.
After the civil war, a divisional headquarters for the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army was constructed by Arkel International in Duar. The site was in a swamp near to the Nile, and had to be raised above flood level. 3,000 truck loads of fill material were brought in from two quarries about distant, a difficult task due to poor road quality and north/south political tensions. The facility is self-contained, with a 3 megawatt power plant.
Usage examples of "duar".
Carefully, painfully, he slid the duar back around his shoulders so that the instrument rested against his back.
Jon-Tom started to swing his duar off his back, and the wizard hastened to forestall him.
The latter made the double strings of his duar seem simple by comparison.
He slipped his arrow quiver and bow over his back while Jon-Tom picked up his duar and ramwood staif.
Jon-Tom put his duar aside, wrapped himself up in his lizard-skin cape, and rolled over.
But he put his duar aside and, together, he and Mudge stood the wizard back on his feet.
He launched into his own interpretation of the mass chanting below, utilizing the duar at maximum volume and trying to sing the improvised song with as much grace and clarity as an Ozzy Osbourne.
Your singing backed by the playing of the duar did not exactly enhance what slight harmonious overtones it possessed.
Jon-Tom was squirming helplessly on his back, still trying to play the duar, still trying to sing.
The accompaniment the duar provided was nothing less than awful, but what mattered was not the ragged series of notes but rather the lyrics Mudge invented.
He was wincing repeatedly, not from the insulting blows that had been rained on him previously but from the screeching, wailing sounds the abused duar was producing.
Mudge might have fooled with a lyre or some other stringed instrument before, but the complexity of the duar was clearly beyond him.
Backed by the duar and combined with the anger Jon-Tom was feeling, the resultant explosion of sound was magnified and sharpened by the magic of his spellsinging.
Momentarily transformed into a miniature particle-beam generator, the duar struck to heart of the monster.
Jon-Tom did his best to protect himself by flinging the duar up in front of his eyes, but he was still temporarily blinded.