This Current African Issues discusses the displacement and resettlement of the Sudanese Nubians into the New Halfa agricultural scheme in Eastern Sudan, the current state of this multi-ethnic community and the challenges the farmers are facing. The Nubians of Wadi Halfa in Northern Sudan (also called the Halfawi Nubians) had to be relocated to New Halfa due to the ...

This Current African Issues discusses the displacement and resettlement of the Sudanese Nubians into the New Halfa agricultural scheme in Eastern Sudan, the current state of this multi-ethnic community and the challenges the farmers are facing. The Nubians of Wadi Halfa in Northern Sudan (also called the Halfawi Nubians) had to be relocated to New Halfa due to the ...

"In December 1959, Egypt and the Sudan signed the Nile Water Agreement which allowed the Egyptian government to construct the famous High Dam of Aswan. The building of the dam caused the flooding of large areas along the Nile in both countries, and some 100.000 people, mainly Nubians, were displaced as the lake behind the dam submerged all village communities betwe...

"In December 1959, Egypt and the Sudan signed the Nile Water Agreement which allowed the Egyptian government to construct the famous High Dam of Aswan. The building of the dam caused the flooding of large areas along the Nile in both countries, and some 100.000 people, mainly Nubians, were displaced as the lake behind the dam submerged all village communities betwe...

"When Egypt decided to build the High Dam at Aswan, the world's attention was attracted by the wonderful scheme, its design, its scale, its cost and its benefits to Egypt; but its evil aspects for Nubia passed unnoticed. The reservoir lake which was created upstream from the Dam disastrously affected all Egyptian Nubia and a reach of 150 km inside the Sudan. In the...

"When Egypt decided to build the High Dam at Aswan, the world's attention was attracted by the wonderful scheme, its design, its scale, its cost and its benefits to Egypt; but its evil aspects for Nubia passed unnoticed. The reservoir lake which was created upstream from the Dam disastrously affected all Egyptian Nubia and a reach of 150 km inside the Sudan. In the...