Mandarin in Sudan

BBC News article "Sudanese students flock to learn Chinese" by Lewis Machipisa:

Products, companies and restaurants from China have flooded into Sudan in recent years and now the Chinese language has become the latest import.

During a recent language competition, Khartoum University resembled a province in China. Everything became Chinese. The students even laughed in Chinese.

The relaxed mood with which the 100 or so students spoke and joked in Chinese at the Chinese Bridge Speech competition suggests that learning Chinese could be the next big thing in Sudan.

First the students had to compete to see who had become the most proficient in the language. In this category the competition was tough.....