Emma McCune (3 February 1964 – 24 November 1993[1]) was a British foreign aid worker in Sudan who married then-guerrilla leader Riek Machar.

[3][4] McCune went to war-torn Sudan in 1987 at age 23 to teach for the British organization Volunteer Services Overseas.

They were instantly attracted to one another despite Machar already having a Sudanese wife, Angela, who was living in England with the couple’s three children at the time.

McCune dismissed Garang’s accusations as ridiculous in an interview with The Sunday Times journalist Richard Ellis.

[6] After taking up with Machar, including using a UN-supplied typewriter to produce manifestos, she was fired by Street Kids International.

[citation needed] Emma's mother, Maggie McCune, published her story in Till the Sun Grows Cold.