Khartoum these past few days has been blistering hot and dusty,bleakly brown.
Which is a pretty good description for Sudan's economy.
The exchange rate is steadily climbing to unbelievable heights.What this means to your average Sudanese is that basics are becoming a luxury.
That's not the worst part.Economies do fail due to no one's fault sometimes.
But when the government of Sudan's short sighted economic vision coupled with no hard currency flowing in,rampant corruption, policies that seem determined to squash local business and investors ,entrepreneurs finding no support whatsoever,facing an economic embargo{which is targeting the Sudanese population not the government}, an opposition that flails like a headless chicken, and one is left with little hope.
Which is partly why I have not been posting that much,it's depressing.
And yet life goes on.
I'll try and write more about the little joys and struggles Sudanese face in day to day life which is what we started out to do in the first place.
Which is a pretty good description for Sudan's economy.
The exchange rate is steadily climbing to unbelievable heights.What this means to your average Sudanese is that basics are becoming a luxury.
That's not the worst part.Economies do fail due to no one's fault sometimes.
But when the government of Sudan's short sighted economic vision coupled with no hard currency flowing in,rampant corruption, policies that seem determined to squash local business and investors ,entrepreneurs finding no support whatsoever,facing an economic embargo{which is targeting the Sudanese population not the government}, an opposition that flails like a headless chicken, and one is left with little hope.
Which is partly why I have not been posting that much,it's depressing.
And yet life goes on.
I'll try and write more about the little joys and struggles Sudanese face in day to day life which is what we started out to do in the first place.
