Images of the Khartoum boom

Despite a war raging in Darfur and U.S. sanctions, Sudan's capital is thriving. A five-star hotel is set to open. Oil money is flowing. And the Chinese are everywhere. (Photographs by J Carrier for Fortune)

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Young boys, representative of Sudan as the confluence of African and Arab cultures, walk out of the Zinjing Center chinese goods shop.

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