Darfur boom...

Revitalization
Sudan's boom - not its anxieties - is obvious the moment [that] one lands at Khartoum International Airport. The airy new hall opened a few months ago, and is filled with foreign oil workers and business consultants. (A sprawling new $500 million airport is scheduled to open in 2011.)
Just beyond the airport perimeter a showroom for Toyota SUVs opened this year, as did Khartoum's first Western-style luxury hotel, built by Abu Dhabi's Rotana hotel group. Guests at the hotel, now three-quarters full, can sip $5 cappuccinos in deep Italian sofas in the marble lobby, or watch movies on large-screen TVs in air-conditioned rooms.
"There's a lot of cash and investment coming in," says Imad Elias, Rotana's executive vice president, at a cocktail party in the ballroom one evening. "Sudan is a place [where] we want to be."

http://platform.blogs.com/passionofthepresent/2007/08/a-khartoum-boom.html