- Kassala
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footnotes =Kassala is the capital of the state of Kassala in northeastern
Sudan . Its 1993 population was recorded to be 234,622.cite web | url = http://www.geohive.com/cntry/sudan.aspx?sub=y&diacrit=1 | accessdate = 2007-02-08 | archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/5MUee2AgM | archivedate = 2007-02-08 | title = GeoHive] It is a railroad hub, market town and famous for its fruit gardens. Kassala's location along the mainKhartoum -Port Sudan highway makes it an important trade center.History
The city was originally created as a military camp for the Ottoman soldiers of
Egypt ianviceroy Muhammad Ali in 1840 during his military offensive into Sudan. Kassala was subsequently captured by theMahdist s in 1885, and again by the Italians in 1894. After Italy returned it in 1897, it fell under the purview ofAnglo-Egyptian Sudan until Sudanese independence.Since the 1960s, the city has been the destination of large numbers of
Ethiopia n andEritrea n refugees fleeing conflict and war. Since the beginning of theSecond Sudanese Civil War in the 1980s, it has also been refuge of internally displaced Sudanese fleeing conflicts in theNuba Mountains , and south and west of the country. About 160,000 of these IDPs settled on the outskirts of the town.Fact|date=February 2007Current status
The Kassala region now has a child mortality rate twice that of the
Darfur regionFact|date=February 2007. UN staff are not allowed into the areaFact|date=February 2007.References
* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/SU/31/Kasala.html FallingRain Map - elevation = 531m (Red dots are railways)]
See also
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2007 Sudan floods
*Railway stations in Sudan External links
* [http://www.ockenden.org.uk/index.asp?id=802 Kassala program] , Ockenden International
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