The article argues that people who care about Sudan’s future had hoped the post-war country would differ from the Sudan before the disaster, with a government bringing new ideas and visions equal to the sacrifices made. But it says the clock hands in officials’ minds are broken, and there is nothing new under Sudan’s sun. As an example, it notes that the Khartoum locality and the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company issued news the day before that seemed to be another case of the same pattern, though the excerpt cuts off there.