![]() ![]() “Sanctions are hell for everything, for maintenance, for spare parts,” Sudan Airways General Manager al-Obeid Fadhl al-Moula said in a recent interview. Sudan Airways, one of the oldest African carriers, founded during British colonial rule over five decades ago, is down to around six ageing Airbus and Fokker planes, many bought in 1996. embargo, plane makers Airbus and Boeing among others do not sell to Sudan, leaving state airline Sudan Airways and other local carriers struggling to get their hands on spare parts. Since there is only one major sea port, in Port Sudan some 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) east of Khartoum, imports are expensive they are trucked for days across the vast country, using a transport system that is likely to be slowed further by the shortage of parts.īecause of the U.S. Despite being rich in farmland, Sudan needs to import even basic food items such as sugar and fruit juices. Some estimates suggest Sudan’s plight is worse the International Monetary Fund estimated late last year that Sudan’s gross official reserves would total $800 million at the end of 2011, which would be under one month of its imports of goods and services.īut the economic crisis is being exacerbated by low productivity, the result of poor planning and corruption, private analysts say. In many countries, three months of import cover would be considered on the verge of being dangerously low. Last October, deputy central bank governor Badr al-Deen Abbas told the local press that Sudan had enough reserves to cover three months of basic imports no update has been given since then. It is not clear exactly how critical the reserve situation is because the central bank does not publish foreign reserve levels. Worried about depleting its foreign reserves, which are needed to buy basic food items abroad, the government is restricting imports of spare parts for much basic machinery, local businessmen say. So money was/is not the issue.Struggling to find other sources of state income and hard currency, the central bank is trying to stop a slide of the Sudanese pound in the black market, where it is trading more than 80 percent below its official rate against the U.S. In addition to the money spent for bowling and shoes, we spent $40.00 on our first round of food and drinks. We were celebrating my son’s birthday and just wanted to bowl. Please understand, not one time did we ask for our money back. At 6:05pm we stormed out of the establishment. We were again met with laughter along with a refusal to get a manger. Being disrespected and enraged, we demanded to speak with a manager. ![]() I am unsure what we the customers were suppose to do to resolve the issue other than talk to the ones running the place. Yes, the three of them stood right there and laughed in our faces, told us that they added 10 minutes to our game, that we were not getting our money back and there was nothing they could do to fix the issue. ![]() A few minutes later here we go again back to talk about the ball return.Īfter voicing our complaints, staff laughed in our face. Then she walked off laughing about our frustration with another employee (tall, skinny guy). On the third trip to alert staff, we were informed by a VERY wisenheimer girl that there was no need for us to keep coming back up as they keep an eye on things. ![]() Then another 10 minutes pass and again we had to alert staff (by this time is a whole new staff except for one tall skinny guy) that the balls were not coming back. 15 minutes into our bowl, we had to alert staff that our balls were not coming back. ![]()
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