https://kandaka.com/tags/development/Recent content in Development on KandakaHugoenSat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/ideas/rebuilding-khartoum/Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/ideas/rebuilding-khartoum/Khartoum has been devastated by two years of urban warfare. The reconstruction that follows will shape how millions of Sudanese live for generations. The question is not whether to rebuild — it is whether to rebuild better.https://kandaka.com/ideas/minerals-sudan/Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/ideas/minerals-sudan/Sudan is one of Africa's largest gold producers, yet most of its mineral wealth leaves the country in other people's hands. The case for building a Sudanese mining sector — not just a Sudanese mining hole.https://kandaka.com/ideas/railway-sudan/Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/ideas/railway-sudan/Sudan once had the longest railway network in Africa. Today almost none of it runs. The collapse of the railway is not merely a transport failure — it is one of the causes of Sudan's economic decline. Rebuilding it is one of the most important things a future Sudanese government could do.https://kandaka.com/ideas/water-paradox-sudan/Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/ideas/water-paradox-sudan/The Nile passes through Sudan for nearly 2,000 kilometres. Yet millions of Sudanese lack clean drinking water, farmers go dry in the rainy season, and annual floods destroy homes and crops. Sudan's water problem is not shortage — it is management.https://kandaka.com/ideas/school-lunches-sudan/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/ideas/school-lunches-sudan/A bowl of food at school is one of the highest-return investments a country can make. It keeps children in school, supports local farmers, and builds the human capital that every other development goal depends on. Sudan needs a national school feeding programme — and the model already exists.https://kandaka.com/ideas/river-transportation-sudan/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/ideas/river-transportation-sudan/Sudan has one of the world's great rivers running through its heart for nearly 2,000 kilometres. Its roads are broken, its railway is collapsed, and its fuel supply is disrupted. The answer to the transport crisis may have been there all along.https://kandaka.com/ideas/gold-gum-arabic-resource-curse-sudan/Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/ideas/gold-gum-arabic-resource-curse-sudan/Sudan has the third largest gold reserves in Africa and controls 80% of global gum arabic supply. Both are exported raw, undertaxed, with rents captured by military elites. This is Paul Collier's resource trap operating in real time — and it has a documented solution.https://kandaka.com/ideas/agricultural-paradox-sudan/Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/ideas/agricultural-paradox-sudan/Sudan has 175 million cultivable acres, the Nile, and proven agricultural heritage. It imports food. This is not geography — it is policy failure: colonial restructuring, premature liberalisation, no cooperative processing, raw commodity export instead of finished goods.