@tinker,
My perception of this place is a lawless jungle where the expectation for order is purely an alien. One has to understand the environment and make the best out of it. In my assessment, there are several categories of people in this place I) expatriates sent here by big corporates( Kcb,Equity,uap, etc) and INGOS working here. This category is on purely work basis and mostly catered for in terms of housing and security by their employers. 2) Business people. They range from hospitality, service etc. The law here is an ass and anything that can go wrong puts people in problems. Any trade disputes are normally resolved by brute force and mostly the locals have an upper hand. Worst is it is a requirement to have a local partner to register a company. Your guess is as good as mine just in case a dispute involves a local and a foreigner. 3) Hustlers. This are the common people either is small biasharas and services like taxi drivers, kinyozi,MJengo etc. life for them is hard but returns are normally 3 times better than Kenya.
Returns here are good but the mistake people make is to reinvest here. In post conflict states like sudan best strategy is to repatriate profits and invest elsewhere . Alternatively spread the risk by investing as a group rather than as individuals. This is what most Ethiopians and their cousins the Eritrians do hence they own almost 80% of hotels as groups
@ Ali Baba.
Welcome back to SS. We say here once you taste the Nile waters you wil always come back.
Finally keep away from local girls. Disputes over women can be fatal.
"Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least." Goethe