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Damazin
Ad-Damazin ( ar, الدمازين, Ad-Damāzīn) is the capital city of Blue Nile, Sudan. It is the location of the Roseires Dam and power generation plant. Ad-Damazin is served by a terminal station of a branch line of the national railway network. However, the train service to Ad-Damazin has been discontinued many years ago. Instead the town can be reached from Khartoum via a decent tarmac road and by plane. However, Damazin Airport is mainly served by UNMIS or government flights. Ad-Damazin is a city filled with many dialects, but the majority of the population speaks Sudanese Arabic, which is an accent of the original Arabic language. The city lies west of the Nile river and northwest of the Roseires reservoir. Blue Nile University (Jameat Al Neel Alazraq) is a public university located in Ad-Damazin, established in 1995. Climate Like other parts of the Sahel, Ad-Damazin has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification ''BSh''), with a wet season and a dry s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damazin Airport
Damazin Airport is an airport serving Damazin, located in the Blue Nile state in Sudan. Facilities The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 17/35 with an asphalt surface measuring . Airlines and destinations Damazin Air Base The airport hosts Sudanese Air Force Helicopter Squadron operating transport helicopters and attack helicopters: * Mil Mi-8 * Mil Mi-24 * Mil Mi-35 The Soviet and later Russian Mil Mi-24 helicopter has been produced in many variants, as described below. History In 1966, Soviet aircraft designer Mikhail Mil created a mock-up design of a new helicopter (derived from the Mil Mi-8) which was ... References Google Maps - Damazin External links * Airports in Sudan Blue Nile (state) {{Sudan-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Damazin Farms
The Al-Damazin Farms, about south-east of Khartoum, Sudan, was an "enormous" farm owned and run by Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden received the land on which the farms were based in payment by the Sudanese government for construction work he had performed. The farms employed thousands of people. The farms had cattle and horses, and grew white corn, sesame, soybeans, sorghum, and peanuts. Mohammad Zeki Mahjoub ) (also ''Abu Ibrahim'', ''Mahmoud Shaker'') is an Egyptian national who was arrested in May 2000 on a security certificate for his alleged membership in the Vanguards of Conquest. Although he has not been charged in Canada,Adelman, Howard21st Cen ... was hired by bin Laden, between February 1992 and May 1993, to supervise 4,000 employees at the farms. Al-Qaeda held "refresher courses" in small arms and explosives on the farms. References {{coord missing, Sudan Farms in Sudan Al-Qaeda facilities Terrorism in Sudan Agriculture in Sudan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Nile (state)
Blue Nile ( ar, النيل الأزرق ') is one of the eighteen states of the Republic of the Sudan. It was established by presidential decree nº 3 in 1992 and is named after the Blue Nile River. The region is host to around forty different ethnic groups. Its economic activity is based on agriculture and livestock and increasing mineral exploitation. In 2011, residents of Blue Nile were scheduled to hold ill-defined "popular consultations" to determine the constitutional future of the state, per the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Instead, a dispute over the rightful government of the state, and the determination of Omar al-Bashir to eradicate the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, have led to a renewed insurgency and a refugee crisis. It appears that the consultations have been postponed indefinitely. Administration The State is sub-divided into six districts (with 2006 Census populations shown hereafter): * Ad-Damazin (212,712) * Al Kormok (110,815) * Ar Rose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roseires Dam
The Roseires Dam ( ar, خزان الروصيرص) is a dam on the Blue Nile at Ad Damazin, just upstream of the town of Er Roseires, in Sudan. It consists of a concrete buttress dam 1 km wide with a maximum height of 68 m, and an earth dam An embankment dam is a large artificial dam. It is typically created by the placement and compaction of a complex semi-plastic mound of various compositions of soil or rock. It has a semi-pervious waterproof natural covering for its surface an ... on either side. The earth dam on the eastern bank is 4 km long, and that on the western bank is 8.5 km long. The reservoir has a surface area of about 290 km2. The dam was completed in 1966, initially for irrigation purposes. A power generation plant, with a maximum capacity of 280 megawatts, was added in 1971. A heightening (and lengthening) project was completed in 2013 and the dam is now 25 km long. References External links Sudan Government: Dams Implementatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNMIS
The United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) was established by the UN Security Council under Resolution 1590 of 24 March 2005, in response to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the government of the Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement on January 9, 2005 in Sudan. UNMIS tasks are to support the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, to perform certain functions relating to humanitarian assistance, protection, promotion of human rights, and to support African Union Mission in Sudan. The mandate of UNMIS ended on 9 July 2011; the UNSC officially ended the mission on 11 July 2011, with a drawdown by 31 August 2011. Equipment and personnel will be transferred to UNISFA and UNMISS. Its best-known employee was journalist Lubna al-Hussein, who resigned in order to waive her immunity. Statistics According to thUN Facts and Figures: Khartoum, Sudan *''Duration'': March 2005 to July 2011 *''Special Representative of the Secretary-Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Nile University
Blue Nile University ( ar, جامعة النيل الأزرق, ''Jām'ah al-Nīl al-azraq'') is a public university located in Damazeen, Sudan. It was established in 1995. It is a member of the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO, formerly ISESCO) is a specialized organization that operates under the aegis of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and is concerned with fields of education .... References Universities and colleges in Sudan Educational institutions established in 1995 1995 establishments in Sudan {{Sudan-university-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Stations In Sudan
Railway stations in Sudan include: Maps * UNHCR Atlas Map * UN Map * Different maps Aljabalan map * * Sudan and South Sudan Map Existing and Proposed * Aswan * Toshka & Abu Simbel - proposed * - border * Wadi Halfa - N - potential break-of-gauge with Egypt ** Merowe ** Karima - branch terminus on River Nile - N * Abu Hamed - N junction for Karima * Barbar * Atbara - N - junction and workshops * Ad-Damir ---- * Port Sudan - E * Jubayt - N * Sinkat - N * Hayya - N - junction * Gadamai * Shendi * Omdurman * Khartoum - C - national capital * Kassala - E - stillborn link to Eritrea * Gedaref - E * Wad Medani - C * Sannar - S - junction to West * Rabak - east bank of River Nile; bridge; junction to south to Al Jabalayn ** Al Jabalayn - C - branch terminus * Kosti - C - west bank of River Nile; bridge * Tandalti - W * Abu Zabad - W ---- * Sannar - S - junction * Damazin - S ---- * Muglad - S * Aweil - S - South Sudan ---- * Muglad - junction to oil fields * Abu J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Sudan
The current flag of Sudan ( ar, علم السودان, ʿalam as-Sūdān) was adopted on 20 May 1970 and consists of a horizontal red-white-black tricolour with a green triangle at the hoist. The flag is based on the Arab Liberation Flag of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, as are the flags of Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine and formerly of the United Arab Republic, North Yemen, South Yemen, and the Libyan Arab Republic. Whereas there is no fixed order for the Pan-Arab Colours of black, white, red, and green, flags using the Arab Liberation Colours (a subset of the Pan-Arab Colours) maintain a horizontal triband of equal stripes of red, white, and black, with green being used to distinguish the different flags from each other by way of green stars, Arabic script, or, in the case of Sudan, the green triangle along the hoist. In the original Arab Liberation Flag, green was used in the form of the flag of the Kingdom of Egypt and Sudan emblazoned on the breast of the Eagl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Egypt to the north, Eritrea to the northeast, Ethiopia to the southeast, Libya to the northwest, South Sudan to the south and the Red Sea. It has a population of 45.70 million people as of 2022 and occupies 1,886,068 square kilometres (728,215 square miles), making it Africa's List of African countries by area, third-largest country by area, and the third-largest by area in the Arab League. It was the largest country by area in Africa and the Arab League until the 2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, secession of South Sudan in 2011, since which both titles have been held by Algeria. Its Capital city, capital is Khartoum and its most populated city is Omdurman (part of the metropolitan area of Khar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
States Of Sudan
Below is a list of the 18 states of the Sudan (Arabic names are in parentheses). Prior to 9 July 2011, the Republic of the Sudan was composed of 25 states. The ten southern states now form part of the independent country of South Sudan. Two additional states were created in 2012 within the Darfur region, and one in 2013 in Kordofan, bringing the total to 18. States of the Republic of Sudan The following 18 states form the territory of the Republic of the Sudan: # Khartoum (ولاية خرطوم Wilāyat Kharṭūm) # North Kordofan (ولاية شمال كردفان Wilāyat Shamāl Kurdufān) # Northern (ولاية الشمالية Wilāyat ash-Shamāliyyah) # Kassala (ولاية كسّلا Wilāyat Kassalā) # Blue Nile (ولاية النيل الأزرق Wilāyat an-Nīl al-Azraq) # North Darfur (ولاية شمال دارفور Wilāyat Shamāl Dārfūr) # South Darfur (ولاية جنوب دارفور Wilāyat Janūb Dārfūr) # South Kordofan (ولاية جنوب ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khartoum
Khartoum or Khartum ( ; ar, الخرطوم, Al-Khurṭūm, din, Kaartuɔ̈m) is the capital of Sudan. With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing north from Lake Victoria, and the Blue Nile, flowing west from Lake Tana in Ethiopia. The place where the two Niles meet is known as ''al-Mogran'' or ''al-Muqran'' (; English: "The Confluence"). From there, the Nile continues north towards Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. Divided by these two parts of the Nile, Khartoum is a tripartite metropolis with an estimated population of over five million people, consisting of Khartoum proper, and linked by bridges to Khartoum North ( ) and Omdurman ( ) to the west. Khartoum was founded in 1821 as part of Egypt, north of the ancient city of Soba. While the United Kingdom exerted power over Egypt, it left administration of the Sudan to it until Mahdist forces took over Khartoum. The British at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahel
The Sahel (; ar, ساحل ' , "coast, shore") is a region in North Africa. It is defined as the ecoclimatic and biogeographic realm of transition between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian savanna to the south. Having a hot semi-arid climate, it stretches across the south-central latitudes of Northern Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea. The Sahel part of Africa includes – from west to east – parts of northern Senegal, southern Mauritania, central Mali, northern Burkina Faso, the extreme south of Algeria, Niger, the extreme north of Nigeria, Cameroon and Central African Republic, central Chad, central and southern Sudan, the extreme north of South Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia. Historically, the western part of the Sahel was sometimes known as the Sudan region (''bilād as-sūdān'' "lands of the Sudan"). This belt was located between the Sahara and the coastal areas of West Africa. There are frequent shortages of food and water due to the dry harsh c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
