Many go to these countries genuinely hoping they can do good.
I doubt she would've had the sweetner of an outrageous paypacket or anything, she's just an ordinary schoolteacher taking her skills to help children whose opportunities would've been highly limited.

Mind you I do remember a few Western charity workers were murdered in Iraq, despite having lived there for decades (one woman was Married to an Iraqi!) but it never fails to completely shock.

She's in one of their jails right now with a baying crowd awaiting her next move. Oh dear. The British govt can't simply let this one play itself out.

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Money.

EDIT: I was going to say that I think I was a little unfair. Sudan is not a rich country (although there may be education programmes where funding allows for good slaries) and it's entriely possible that this woman went there for altruistic purposes.

However, the woman worked at the Unity High School It's a British school where she taught the children of Sudanese professionals, expatriates and oil workers.

Money may well have been the driving force, particularly after a separation.

All of which is to do with why she might have gone there is the first place and no comment at all on yet another example of religious barbarity.