April 28, 2021
WAD MADANI, SUDAN (AFP) – As night falls in Sudan, villagers rush to pull over travellers with a friendly roadblock of hospitality celebrating the holy fasting month of Ramadhan, traditions enduring despite dire economic troubles.
Rugs are rolled out on the roadside verge in an impromptu al fresco dining room to celebrate
Iftar, the fast-breaking evening meal to mark the end of a baking hot day without either a mouthful of food or a drop to drink.
“This is a custom that our grandparents began,” said Aboulmaali Mohamed Ibrahim, offering a meal in the village of Nuba, some 50 kilometres south of Sudan’s capital Khartoum.
Despite woes, Sudanese share Ramadan meal
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Au Soudan, des voyageurs stoppés en bord de route pour partager l'iftar
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Shrugging off economic woes, Sudanese share Ramadan meal
AFP/Wad Madani, Sudan Filed on April 26, 2021
Faithful end their fast along the side of the road of the Jazeera State highway in the village of Al Nuba, about 50 kilometres south of Sudan s capital.
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To residents living in villages along the road, it is part of upholding Sudan’s long-held traditions of hospitality to strangers
As night falls in Sudan, villagers rush to pull over travellers with a friendly roadblock of hospitality celebrating the holy fasting month of Ramadan, traditions enduring despite dire economic troubles.
Rugs are rolled out on the roadside verge in an impromptu al fresco dining room to celebrate iftar, the fast-ending evening meal to mark the end of a baking hot day without either a mouthful of food or a drop to drink.