6/2007 A great experience playing with Niccolò Fabi in Khartoum, Sudan, in aid of the Salesian centre in El Obeid for Darfur refugees. Seems like we were the first Western artists to give a concert there! It was great to play to such a great audience, for such a great cause. Band members were Niccolò, Lorenzo Feliciati, Alessandro Canini and myself. We had a great jam with Sudanese artist Kamal Kiela and his band. 
I was struck by the good-natured, kind manner of the Sudanese people, who live in such difficult conditions even in Khartoum. The heat is killing. Desert sand penetrates every corner. Garbage and building detrites are everywhere. People do not have free medical care, so most have no care at all.
We visited the new hospital built by EMERGENCY and were taken around by Gino Strada. The Salam Cardiac Centre is the first high-quality, completely free of charge cardiac surgery centre in all of Africa.