Shopping malls in Khartoum ... just to see!

The sellers are displaying Italian high-end children's clothing in a huge showroom while coffee and tea workers serve in luxury cafes and an army of cleaning workers is deployed to clean floors at the new Oasis Shopping Center in Khartoum, a world quite different from the rest of Sudan.

The owners of the shopping mall with sparkling elevators and air-conditioning are revolutionizing the world of shopping in a city whose untidy streets are lined with wagons and donkey carts as well as street vendors.here is Shops for sale in Gulberg Lahore are available.

But there is only one problem .. The mall is almost free of visitors.

"I have not had a single customer in the past 10 days," says Kamaluddin, the manager of a Chinese furniture store on the first floor.

"If the situation continues for another five months, we will close the activity," he said as he sat in his large glass desk calculating his losses on a calculator.

Sudan is under the brunt of ethnic conflict, poverty and US sanctions because of its human rights conditions and has never been a magnet for business.

But ambitious plans were set up with support from Gulf investors as the economic boom began with oil revenues after the government signed a peace deal with the southern rebels in 2005.

New hotels such as Rotana and high-profile shops such as Adidas and Puma have opened their doors in Khartoum, a poor city that has enjoyed little development since its independence from Britain in 1956.

But hopes for economic growth in Sudan soured after the south split in July 2011 when tensions with Juba worsened this year. Due to the lack of agreement on the export of oil through the northern pipeline, South Sudan closed its oil wells in January closed the economies of the two countries.