Greeting from Khartoum

From the dusty city of Khartoum where the sky rains sands and the earth grow nothingness, where tiredness is the order of the day, is there any happeness coming to this land? Where our fathers fought and died.

Only the future will tell.

Ya habba, How are you hope that you are enjoying your time there, email me.
Good luck.

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العزيز أحمد أمين

لك كل الأماني الطيبة ، ولا تقنط سريعاً يا صديق...

أنتم السابقون...

ح.خ

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salam Ahmed

welcome to the dusty city



what a pleasant surprise

Quote: From the dusty city of Khartoum where the sky rains sands and the earth grow nothingness, where tiredness is the order of the day, is there any happeness coming to this land?

you got frustrated so fast …



check your e-mail .. let me hear from you

Cool؟؟

Enjoy the DUST .. donot get BUST .. never ever TRUST .. this place has no JUST

Quote: Enjoy the DUST .. donot get BUST .. never ever TRUST .. this place has no JUST

what a nice poem …



it might frustrate him though .. even more

he sounds annoyed enough



just kidding
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salam Farda

long time .. no see

how is the grey city .. by the way

اهلا بيك يا احمد امين فى الخرطوم مدينة الغبار والاكاذيب!




الخرطوم من فوق!

Greetings to you all

To Farda and Bahari, Hala ( I will call u),Ahmed abdalla, Adel

For us who lived in the exile for so long Sudan has become a virtual reality, "a scene from star war movie" as my friend described some images from Khartoum.
Casually a women dragging her child in street entered into a discussion with me about how disobedient and crazy her child, and we still walking my friend was so amused by the surreal and casual social interaction, another one approached us waving her hands saying "People gone crazy in this city this man try to hit me" explaining to my friend he exploded with laughter, some time I wonder what a place this city have become it changed so much.

Forget about the natural dust my friends, how about the real dust "the political" that have busted this city and this country for so long and clouded its mission and vision, when this dust going to end? And who will be able to do it?


Regards
ahmed

والعجب كان ركبت الرقشة
لازم تحضر كماماتك من ملامسة هذه النصيبة ل########## خاصة صاحب الرقشة حين يكون ما عنده رخصة ويحاول اتزاوغ بس لو كنت من المعجبين بهذه الوسيلة لابد ان تمتلك كمامة .. ولا الحساية !!!

Ahmed Amin
Please keep writing here, my friend; it is important that we start to gain some understanding of the changes that have taken/and is taking place in the dustiest of cities... i
It seems to me that you have an advantage in this situation; though gained through the pains of loss and despair, you seem to have two different pair of eyes gazing simultaneously: that of the Stranger, and that of the exiled re-turning
That, I should hope, makes one’s vision and sense of discovery more alert; though I guess it usually won’t last long... Dust of all kinds will accumulate and might shroud your vision. i
But you surely see differently; maybe that’s why your writing have turned more literary (a good sign indeed!) i

I am back to Stokey now, loaded with greetings for you from Awad Haroun in Dammam
Keep it up; we are reading

Hala, Salam… just saw your words here…yes, it is been awhile ya farda! Hope you are doing well in Khartoum… and keep up good work… i
h.k

Laziz and Amoaj and the O Zone places where only the expatriates and the Khartoum so called (upper class) mingle to eat very expensive meals served by foreign staff, for Mr X a UN staff based in Khartoum this an extraordinary phenomenon, nothing economical justify it, Sudan misfortune me be complex and multifaceted, however he blame's the educated elites who left the country to be run by punch of fanatics with pathological vision to destroy and corrupt.
Aesthetically Khartoum lost its colonial class and heritage, it become amalgamation of badly designed houses and poorly conceived ideas of space and time. the endless mobile phones companies adverts and the endless shops that sells mobile phones or pay as you go cards are spreading beyond any marketing logic, even the tea seller will transfer credit for you or sell you pay as you go cards while you sipping away your tea, irony has no place in Sudan because ironic is the name of the game, no street signals why not? no body need it? the taxi driver doesn't need to know any street names in Khartoum any more,why? because every thing is .......up my friend, he is exhausted and he is sick and tired of those idiots Amjad drivers, he told me I am not prejudiced brother but those Amjad drivers are the real scum of the earth they are filthy and rude and he hate them.
Sudan airways has only two aeroplanes the company have scored unimaginable records in how to arrive late, and to disappoint their customers? despite all this shameless history the building that hosting the head office of this failing company is misleading enough you can easily mistake it for well run trans- national company.
As the science and scientific knowledge has been downgraded and replaced by all the mumbo-jumbo of the new Sufism cults and redundant Islamist semi-knowledge, ironically as you might have noticed the crazy spread of the mobile phones adverts, you can easily make the connection (it all depends in your mode) and notice the extraordinary increased numbers of PhD holders in this country.

Ya Farda

Long time I hope you guys OK, thanks for the kind words I am glad you met Awad
keep your head above the water brother looking forward to see soon.

Dear Ahmed Ameen
Thank u for writing from the dusty city of Khartoum. My British colleague Michelle Grice said this beautiful city looks like Madrid. She is so intrigued. What do you think? terrible

Greetings Farda

One of our dearest friends is in Khartoum as well nowadays… so the
place is a bit as it used to be
(at least at that level)

Ahmed Amin goes somewhere and he just sit there observing ..

contemplating on the world .. I can see




Ahmed Amin .. I m just kidding ..

(it looks like a warning, is it not ?)

احمد امين
رغم انوفهم التي لا تعرف الزكام نحن هاهنا باقون

NCP Freedom of Expression

Yesterday I managed to buy most of the printed news paper in Khartoum, and if you put aside the 4 sport news papers and excluded (Al Ayam, The Citizen, Khartoum Monitor, Al Adwa, and to some extend El Sudani and El Khartoum, Al Wahda) the rest is connected in varying degrees to the ruling NCP, or PCP (Trabi) or Muslim brothers, and Sofia, nothing in this spectrum explicitly express any grievances or concerns regarding thorny issues e.g. Darfur that mobilized the Sudanese in the Diaspora, all the 32 publications are exclusively owned and run by men even if you look at the gender ratio among the columnists in e.g. Al Rayam only 2 is women out of 17.
Freedom of expression is worded and explicitly pronounced in the CPA and the interim constitution, however according to the ruling NCP this freedom of expression is defined and measured to standard that they should approve, surrounded by various red tapes and financial difficulties design to hold back any meaningful progress towards real democratization.
Except from few clever knowledgeable columnists, the content of these newspaper is very poor some of them indulged in the shameful route of plagiarizing news item and analysis without any reference to the sources.
If you thinking of holding public meeting you have to notify the security forces (of course when you notify them you will tell them what topics the meeting will discuss who will address the meeting and the duration of the meeting) and then pay 800 thousands Sudanese pound or your meetings will be considered illegal.

Abdurahim Abayazid this greeting from me becuase we have the same name.
Gamal Abayazid

يا عبد الرحيم زمن كيفك

شوف الماسنجر أرجو الاتصال

There are too many undefined jobs you can not really categories them or pigeon-hole them or see the marketing logic behind them but they are happening all over the place, the new phenomena is street sellers they sell you any things that you would ever dream to find in front of you during Khartoum Traffic Jam, one item offered to the indifferent drivers is the mirror, I have know idea how I made the connection but it seem to me its quite symbolic thing to sell, the articulate young Afghan leader asked during the recent Afghanistan trouble after 11/9, what does he make of the world view of Afghanistan? He said “Afghanistan is like a mirror reflect the ugly face of humanity, if you do not like what you see, smash your face but not the mirror” . I guess we need these mirrors to confirm our lost identity, to reflect our shameless indifferent faces to poverty, to echo the ugliness of the Korean cars that dominated Khartoum streets, and to reproduce our ignorant expressions of not knowing what is really going on in this country.

Last Wednesday the center stage has been prepared by local Sudanese News paper Al Ray Alam by hosting a debate between the SPLM Yassir Arman and Eltayab Mostafa well known Islamist opposing the CPA agreement and calling for Northern Sudan separation. To discuss issues related to unity and separation.
In different time and place Eltyb Mostafa will be classified as racist fanatics and will be sidelined and neglected like the crazed man of South Africa Terre'Blanche who spend most of his adult life supporting the cruel apartheid system and now opposing the New South Africa, both men are creation of a culture that assuming supremacy and practiced unprecedented cruelty against its fellow human beings, when the time of suffering is near end the two men choose their destiny to oppose new humane way of living.

Eltyab Mostafa the man who dedicate his new paper Elintibaha to oppose the idea of New Sudan, apparently he will be very busy spending the next few years exaggerating any incident such as the one happened in Elmaygoma as new bloodshed and similar to what he described as bloody and black Monday, so as to confirm to the Sudanese public his ideas of separation is correct.
His other colleague in destiny Terre'Blanche viewed the end of apartheid as a surrender to communism, and threatened full scale race war if President FW de Klerk handed over power to Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress'. When De Klerk addressed a meeting in Terre'blanche's hometown of Ventersdorp, Terre'blanche led a protest, and the 'The Battle of Ventersdorp' ensued between the AWB and the police, with a number of people losing their lives.
But the movement failed, and instead of sending Nelson Mandela back to Robben Island it saw its own leader in jail, convicted of assaulting a petrol attendant and trying to murder one of his farm workers. White supremacy is a memory and the dream of an independent white homeland an ever-receding fantasy. We hope similar fate to an evil man who stir hatred and violence among Sudanese people.
In our country when we acknowledge the contribution of great traditional leaders like Deng Majok and Babo Nimir to peace and harmony in Sudan during difficult time, you always hope there will be better future for Sudan because we have such wisdom and vision not evilness personified in the message of Eltyab Mostafa and his new league of racist separatist.

Similarty


1. During the apartihied period the ruling National Party of south Africa considered the (Afrikaner Resistance Front or AWB) to be little more than a fringe group, so while not officially endorsed, they were able to operate relatively unhindered.
2. Nowthe Ruling National Congerss Party unoffcialy endorse theactivites of Eltayb Mostafa Group.

1. The conviction that there is a Jewish conspiracy
2. Opposing living in a multi-racial society.
3. Patholgical hatred to intercial marriage.

Now we can talk about the rest of the story