Gezira (Arabic: ولاية الجزيرة, romanized: Wilāyat Al Ǧazīra), also spelt Al Jazirah, Al Jazeera and Al Jazira, is one of the 18 states of Sudan. The state lies between the Blue Nile and the White Nile in the east-central region of the country. The state has a population of 5,096,920 as of 2018,[3] and an area of 27,549 km2.[4]
The state's capital is Wad Madani. Gezira is known as an irrigated cotton-producing state as it is a well-populated area that is suitable for agriculture. The state's name comes from the Arabic word for island.
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Gezira (Arabic: ولاية الجزيرة, romanized: Wilāyat Al Ǧazīra), also spelt Al Jazirah, Al Jazeera and Al Jazira, is one of the 18 states of Sudan. The state...
battle in the War in Sudan over the control of Wad Madani, the capital of GeziraState in east-central Sudan, between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the...
human rights violations. The RSF's control over northern regions, like Gezirastate, which was marked by severe atrocities, prompted widespread civilian...
The Gezira Scheme (Arabic: مشروع الجزيرة) is one of the largest irrigation projects in the world. It is centered on the Sudanese state of Gezira, just...
University of Gezira, or U of G, is a public university located in Wad Medani, Sudan. It is a member of the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic...
Red Sea state. He served in this position until 2015 and then became governor of GeziraState. In November 2017, while still governor of Gezira, Sudanese...
Support Forces took control of GeziraState from the Sudanese Armed Forces. 24 December – Residents of White Nile State flee south toward the border with...
cultivated. Major agricultural projects such as the Gezera Scheme in Gezirastate are underway in order to make Sudan food self-sufficient. Sudan is one...
Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in GeziraState near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when...
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GeziraState, Sudan) is a Professor at the Department of History, University of Khartoum. Fadwa Abd al-Rahman Ali Taha was born in Arbaji, Gezira State...
awarded a diploma in engineering, earning him employment in Wed Madeni, Gezirastate, in central Sudan, as a vocational inspector at the center. He later...
column for the newspaper al-Adwaa and presented a cultural programme on GeziraState TV. As a literary author, Mamoun has published two novels in Arabic,...
totalling 1,703,267 IDPs, refugees, returnees and other vulnerable people. The state hosts 1.1M IDPs and 30 IDPs camps. Flooding at the Kalma IDPs camp (population:...
north-west by the Northern State, in the east and southeast by the states of Kassala, Qadarif, Gezira and White Nile State, and in the west by North Kurdufan...
One of Cairo's well-known modern monuments, it stands in the Gezira district on Gezira Island in the River Nile, close to downtown Cairo. The Cairo Tower...
Mahdi family were sequestered by the state. Warburg 2003, pp. 89. Sudan: Darfur and the Failure of an African State, New Haven Press: London, 2010. p. 63...
Gezira Light Railway, one of the largest light railways in Africa, evolved from tracks laid in the 1920s' construction of the canals for the Gezira Scheme...
are the native speakers of the languages, originally migrated from the Gezira area in Sudan. Nilotic language speakers live in parts of the Democratic...
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