Billions of Promises to Keep

HERE is a link to Kofi Annan's NY times article on the Oslo Donors Conference on Sudan. It clearly illustrates the difficulty that many previous relief efforts had with converting pledges into hard cash.

It should only spur the future government to be wise and honest custodians of the people's money. The bulk of these reconstruction efforts will have to be locally driven, and powered by the ingenuity of the Sudanese people in leveraging their natural resources for their collective good.