From Sudan with Love

Unplanned trip home.Arrived at 6 pm,temp 38C.I stayed in the capital khartoum first night.I walked into an old acquaitance of mine(He is originally from Darfur,went into Big business with good connections with China and things re so fine that his family moved to live in London when he is travelling looking after business.). I met him last night and he wanted his son to come to Ireland for training as his son just finished medical training in China.When I offered him an academic opinion about how to and the requirements he interrupted me to tell his son is going there for good " You know he is going to tell them that he is from Darfur and things will be fine as a friend told him"-This what he said to me.....................And I couldn't say more than OK that is fine!!!!! .I felt as if I had never belonged to Sudan.Another Holocaust story for sale.As if we never lived together as Sudanese ( Sudanese= Sudanese.There is no actual sub nations,Arabs,africans,..etc.There are tribes though and the worst are the political tribes and the business tribes.AKA some of the so called African Darfur tribes belonged to this current goverment and when things didn't work they remembered they are different and decided that they are Africans....I do admit alot of the poor and humble Darforians are victims of the goverment( and who isn't? You need some connections with some body on the far side of the World to adopt your cause for whatever reason:to bring civilization,GOD,business or to save the Dying Africans and hee you go.).Read This Link which gives some insight to the conflict.Further reference will follow
Khartoum is not the same city I knew from before,there is a hell of China City without the Chinese.Chinese products swamped the city (including the good,the bad and the harmfull stuff) and money is generated for some of the new Sudanese Rich (who are very very few as most of the people are poor and some money is being lodged in the real China banks.
One amazing commodity is MOBILES ,shops of all types of accessories and types of products and aren't we all talking.As least we don't have any excuse that we could miss any news in the world.In sudan we like "missed calls" it is the best method to save many i.e you get somebody to satify your need to chat and you get him/her to pay???(a definition of a miss call aka missed call is when you try to to answer the caller will hang up to get you to call back).

and the DSL is there so alot of people are on the web cam and the messenger and LOVE is on the air!!!!

25.06.2006 Khartoum