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by Andres Schipani
It has the feel of the fertile Argentine pampas: fresh green pastures, harvesting machines baling alfalfa, the smell of wet, cut grasses.
But this massive agricultural oasis lies in the Nubian Desert in northeastern Sudan on the right bank of the Nile, in circles of grassland sprayed 22 hours a day by centre pivot irrigation systems.
“This is the desert, you know, but we are turning it green,” says Osama Daoud Abdellatif, chairman of the DAL group, Sudan’s biggest conglomerate and one of the country’s top private agricultural investors. Step outside each grass field, and the desert stretches to Egypt.
Covid-19’s second wave hits Sudan harder and faster
12 Jan 2021
Sudan’s healthcare system was already in crisis before Covid-19. Now the country’s second wave is pushing it further past its limits
NEWS ANALYSIS
While people celebrated the new year in Khartoum, the state’s ministry of health recorded 134 new cases of Covid-19 and seven deaths, according to its director, Mahjoub Taj el-Sir. The state’s increasing infection rate is a worrying trend, the director says, because Khartoum state like the rest of Sudan is still woefully ill-prepared to contend with the second wave of the virus.
The second wave of the coronavirus has hit Sudan twice as fast, with about the same number of cases and deaths reported in almost half the time of the first wave, according to federal ministry of health data. During the first two weeks of October, the average daily number of cases reported was fewer than 10. This increased to more than 100 cases every day by mid-November, and reached