Between the Wealth of Resources and the Wealth of Vision

Hisham Awad Mohamedani
To Engineer Fouad Qabbani,
I read your article, “Sudan Between Budgeting and Appeasement”, and found that it goes far beyond merely describing the crisis. Rather, it penetrates its deepest roots, where wealth intersects with politics and competing interests pull the nation between sound budgeting and political appeasement.
You were right to direct the compass towards the greater truth: Sudan has never been resource-poor. Rather, throughout much of its history, it has suffered from a shortage of prudent governance capable of investing its wealth wisely and safeguarding it from greed and exploitation.
Your argument unfolded with admirable progression, beginning with a majestic portrayal of Sudan’s abundant blessings—its water, minerals, fertile lands, and livestock—before moving towards a thoughtful examination of whether the political elite truly appreciates the value of this exceptional inheritance. The question you posed appeared, on the surface, to be an enquiry, yet at its core it rang like an alarm bell in the nation’s ears. You struck at the heart of the matter when you observed that Sudan is not targeted because of its weakness, but because of its latent strength; not envied for its poverty, but for the uniqueness of its resources and the vast horizons they offer.
Your call for an exclusively Sudanese dialogue reflects the wisdom of one who understands the nature of crises. Peace is not built through exclusion but through inclusion; conflicts are not extinguished by adding more fuel to the fire, but by elevating the voice of reason above the clamour of disputes. Your appeal for reconciliation and engagement among the various political components amounted to a call to gather the scattered pieces before rebuilding the house, and to mend the fractures before erecting new walls.
Equally significant was your treatment of the resource question during wartime, one of the most profound sections of the article. With notable insight, you exposed the striking contradiction between the continued flow of wealth and the stagnation of solutions, as though unveiling a question long hidden in the shadows: Who benefits from the continuation of the conflict? Whose interests remain untouched regardless of how fiercely the fires burn? Here lies the importance of your call for a national economic vision led by individuals of competence and integrity, for the battle over resources is no less consequential than the battles fought on the battlefield itself.
You concluded the article in a distinctly Sudanese spirit, drawing upon the values of forgiveness and tolerance and invoking a social legacy that has, for decades, served as a safety valve for this great nation. Your words successfully combined realism with hope, diagnosis with remedy, in a graceful composition that united the firmness of ideas with the elegance of expression, and the warmth of patriotism with the calmness of wisdom.
It is an article that balances reason and emotion, combines warning with encouragement, and places its finger precisely upon the wound without losing faith in Sudan’s ability to rise again. You deserve appreciation for this thoughtful and measured contribution, which reads the present with insight and anticipates the future with the awareness of an expert and the sincerity of a patriot. It calls upon the nation to strive towards a Sudan governed by knowledge rather than favouritism, by sound planning rather than appeasement, and by the logic of the state rather than the calculations of competing groups.
Such writings do more than describe reality; they contribute to the shaping of public consciousness. They do more than raise questions; they open pathways towards contemplating the answers. Above all, they reaffirm that Sudan, regardless of the magnitude of its hardships or the darkness of the clouds that gather above it, remains capable of recovering its vitality whenever the national will unites around a common purpose and the interests of the homeland are placed above all else.
May you continue to be a voice of reason in an age of noise, a source of insight that recognises the treasures beneath the earth while envisioning the horizons of the future, and a pen that writes for Sudan rather than merely about it—one that stands with the nation, never against it.

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