Count me at the Nile .. Do not ask questions about fatigue – the face of truth – ✍️ Ibrahim Shaqlawi
Yesterday, I walked with a number of friends in Khartoum, this city which groaned under war surgeries, always stored in its soil enough nostalgia to awaken the memory of an entire homeland and some of the remains of Madad. The capital is used to be the mirror of the country and its acceptance, and if those withdrawn from it try from the night of betrayal and betrayal, it is restored here with insistence which does not know negotiation, retirement or refraction.
We have monitored an almost unimaginable activity that is no longer hidden from one of the efforts that the government of the State made to rehabilitate infrastructure, as well as separate initiatives to reform what war has destroyed, from hospitals to schools. There is a real return which began to endure in the city, but it is not complete without being accompanied by a popular rise and patriotism which give this return a spirit and a meaning. It is well known that the state alone does not give life to a city, but rather restores it with its will, its nostalgia, its participation and its efforts.
Until the words of our man, Saif Al -Din El -Desouki, become: “Count for me in the Nile, do not land for fatigue”, group traffic with a homeland that does not accept that people are expatriate or reduced to the wounds of war. Whoever carries this love for the fatherland should not hesitate to wear the construction shovels, to establish a new scene, and for a dream that we have a shadow that the inhabitants of Khartoum have the return of life as is, and even better.
Omdurman, in this current painting as usual, was and is always the most expressive model of the ability of the people of Sudan to overcome adversity. The city, which embraces all the colors of the political, social and artistic spectrum, reopened its markets, its mosques and its memory which they wanted to erase. Because it is a city with beauty and mercy, and it also carries a dramatic story of the night of stories and fans of lovers. When Omdurman returns, she doesn’t come back to herself, but Khartoum is forced to come back.
Heritage, science, values and belonging of Omdurman; It is the one that brings its market between tombs and perfumes, and luxurious books have hoarded with the experiences of generations, sellers of Baklava, Kunafa and lemon juice. A city that has given birth to radio, theater and parliament, and kissed poets, singers and revolutionaries … and the people of memory, thought and figures. When Khalil Farah said: “He is allowed to run for the body”, he called a national memory subject to the belonging, dignity and love of people.
Just as the city resisted colonialism and the life of the possibility, it resisted today ruin with the same spirit as Khalil Farah sang: “Maya Moulay, Hafi Al -haqq, by the tram of the Shiite road” is a path which does not know who does not burn, steal and obscure identity .. and abduction the memories that do not have a sharing.
This new symbolism represented by Omdurman should be inspired throughout the state. The reconstruction of Khartoum requires the adoption of the philosophy of “return to the soul”. The Mars stadium was cleaned and operated the land port and a number of hospitals. These days are paved roads, water stations in operation in Al -Muqrin, Bahriya and electricity in all processing stations. Khartoum, with its geographic and human diversity, represents the beating heart of Sudan. Consequently, today, we are from solidarity and union, and to support official popular efforts to accelerate the rate of reconstruction.
Administrative and security reforms in the state of Khartoum are an estimated effort, but that should not be done, in isolation of the rise of youth. People are more expensive than gold, as described by Al -Desouki, therefore the real dependence on their ability to convert ruin into a new promise, into a rebirth of development which surprises those who spoke by flying them through their false options.
In this scene, the government of the State stands in front of major challenges: securing fuel, restarting the facilities, the content of epidemics and the restoration of health and education services. But the biggest challenge remains in confidence. The return of more than 70,000 citizens in Khartoum was recorded in April. This return, although it reflects the improvement of conditions, is at the same time a major challenge for the authorities concerning the provision of basic services, the security guarantee and the absorption of these figures in an economic, social and services system that everyone should be part. Life in Khartoum has become a decision.
Khartoum, gentlemen, is not a place where we return, but a moment of our first awareness of values and belonging, in which we invoke nostalgia that is not old. As Al -Desouki said: “Return to the Nile, do not ask for fatigue.” Returning it is not a difficulty, but rather an internal submission to something similar to fate. It is the city that knows its inhabitants and its loved ones, we know more than what we know. It is the face of truth.
You are fine and well.
Monday April 12, 2025 ad shglawi55@gmail.com
