The oil and manufacturing boom in Sudan (PICTURES)

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

We all know how dry and desolate Khartoum was just a decade ago and how empty we thought the city was. Well, that was before oil -- meet the NEW Khartoum.

Sudan is also very well-known for producing its own military equipment, civilian vehicles, and an assortment of other manufacturing industries. It truly is a strong nation.

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[eternauta]

Impressive! I'm tempted to move to Sudan.

[*Nobleman*]

Amazing, Inshallah Somalia will sort out their problems and experience similar boom (I can dream)

[FAH1223]

Here is the problem. All that money is centralized to KHARTOUM and ONLY Khartoum.

Thats why you have had conflicts with the South and now the rebels in Darfur.

You have a dictatorship, and that means you have centralization in one area. Thats why Sudan always has some sort of conflict.

[Basra-]

Wow,its breath taking! But these are africans we r talking about, their short lived boom will only last as long as the bush administration is in the office. As soon as democrats take the white house, its back to first world prosper, third world downfall to poverty! I think the success of the west economy depends on the decline and misery of african and other third world continents. So...Nobleman--u can dream on- somalia will never even be whole again. Qabil rules.

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

Here is the problem. All that money is centralized to KHARTOUM and ONLY Khartoum.

Thats why you have had conflicts with the South and now the rebels in Darfur.

You have a dictatorship, and that means you have centralization in one area. Thats why Sudan always has some sort of conflict.

Also, don't forget the Northeast which is Beja and Rashaida rebel territory.

Its a fact that Sudan's wealth is centralized to just Khartoum, but they've already implemented a sovereign and separate government for Southern Sudan, which still manages to fock itself up. The North only uses Northern oil and resources. But you have to respect the way that they used their wealth to invest in their future by contracting domestic companies to build their nation and domestic employees to drive their future. They really have their shit straight.

[cabdallah252]

Puntland in 10-15 years

[kambuli]

Maasha Allaah

I hope they don't eat each other...Like all those muslim countries who kill each other...

BTW what is the cause of this Darfur crisis is it a plan calculated for the demise of Sudan or is it really an act of greed by the Khartuum gov't?

[Rebel-Lion1]

That will be puntland in a fews year. 8)

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

Maasha Allaah

I hope they don't eat each other...Like all those muslim countries who kill each other...

BTW what is the cause of this Darfur crisis is it a plan calculated for the demise of Sudan or is it really an act of greed by the Khartuum gov't?

Somalia is the only Muslim country that squanders opportunity so clearly. Lebanon had the worst Arab civil war in the 1980s and today its the richest low-resource Arab state.

Darfur looks like the work of mercenaries or non-government tribes. The Northern Sudanese Arabs are some of the friendliest and most open people I've met. They're even more Afrocentric than Ethiopians and Somalis. Their success tells their story, obviously. The Sudanese government is the only fundamentalist Islamic Republic in Africa, so they have many enemies, far and near. Its obvious that Darfur is not the work of Omar Al-Bashir.

[eternauta]

Here is the problem. All that money is centralized to KHARTOUM and ONLY Khartoum.

Not so. Clearly, other regions, cities and towns aren't neglected. You might be right if you say, to a degree money is centralized to KHARTOUM. Even so, it's something expected in Africa to centralize money to the capital city. Let's see some pictures of other cities:

Omdurman






Port Sudan





Kassala

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

Eternauta,

Omdurman is attached to Khartoum, its virtually just a suburb of Khartoum and for that, it is Sudan's second-best city. And Port Sudan is the country's only major port, obviously it will have some benefits, the same goes for Kassala, another port town. And there is nothing remarkably special about them.

But the fact remains that Khartoum is to Sudan what Xamar was to Somalia under Siad Barre.

[HabeshKid]

Very impressive. One of my good friends is from Northern Sudan and was born and raised till high school in Khartoum. He eerily resembles one of my older brothers. Anywho, he is very proud of the progress of his people and from day one has told me how much the Darfur situation is severely overblown by the Western media. I know a lot of Ethiopians and Eritreans have fled to Sudan in hopes of prosperity. I'm not sure if there are Somalis there as well...maybe someone else can concur with that or not.