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 KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - New office blocks are popping up across the capital and the country's first shopping mall is packed. Nearby, cell phone and computer stores line city streets that just a few years ago were dusty lanes.
While many Sudanese displaced by three years of fighting in the Darfur region are living on handouts in refugee camps, the country as a whole is in the midst of an economic boom.
Sudan only began exporting crude oil in 1999, but this year it is expected to earn between $4 billion and $5 billion in oil revenue, said Abdul Rahim Hamdi, a former finance minister who still advises the government on economic matters.
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