Amar eats is milled and traded by COM.

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Yet he is optimistic about the future of Madhi: Amar proudly shows a magazine about Madhi and points at the picture of the diaspora in the Gulf who financed the new secondary school. “We built everything ourselves. Without COM and without the government” he tells us.

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Amar is dreaming about a return to Madhi. Through his relations in the Ministry he has been able to register the land which his grandmother once held near Waha. He had the land leveled and connnected it to the canal through which COM supplies the land of Madhi with water. As long as he lives in Khartoum he sharecrops itPinning his hopes for a new trial on a panel of three appeals court judges in Lake Charles, Vince Marinello, the former New Orleans newsman serving a life sentence for killing his estranged wife in Old Metairie, claims prosecutors cheated to win a conviction because evidence was sorely lacking.

Times-Picayune archiveVince Marinello turned 73 this month at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

"The case against Mr. Marinello was circumstantial, at best," Marinello wrote in one of two appeal briefs. "The prosecutor's improper, blatant and repeated attempts to prejudice Mr. Marinello in the eyes of the jury are proof positive that the prosecutor was desperate.

"The prosecutor knew his chances of obtaining a conviction were slim," he wrote. "In an overzealous attempt to gain a conviction at any cost the prosecutor