Dubai? No - try Sudan
Speaking of major mixed-use developments, you've probably never been to Khartoum (just a wild guess!) but if you have, prepare to see it in a whole new light with the arrival of the Mogran development. While the conflict in Darfur rages far away on the other side of the country, developers are hard at work building this city-within-a-city.
The project is to include no less than 10 hotels, masses of shopping, residential, offices and more, all rising above the Nile on the site of a former garbage dump.
Don't plan on living it up down by the river anytime soon, though -- the no-fun zone that is Khartoum makes no gambling/not-so-much drinking Dubai seem positively hedonistic these days. The BBC reports that the government recently cracked down on fraternizing between the sexes at cafes around the city. Can't have that, now, can we.
