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Maintenance works on the dam were last held in 2017. [5] The Arbaat Dam also acted as the primary freshwater supply for Port Sudan, which became the acting capital of Sudan following the beginning of fighting in Khartoum between government forces and the Rapid Support Forces during the ongoing Sudanese civil war. [3]
"Even before the dam burst people were trapped by the flooding and couldn't get anything from Port Sudan. The aid coming in now can't get to the people," said Mohamed Othman, a leader from one of ...
The dam has a length of about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) and a crest height of up to 67 metres (220 ft). It consists of concrete-faced rockfill dams on each river bank (the right bank dam is the largest part of the project, 4.3 km long and 53m high; the left bank is 1590 metres long and 50 metres high), an 883-metre (2,897 ft)-long 67-metre (220 ft)-high earth-core rockfill dam (the 'main dam') in ...
Flash flooding has decimated 20 villages and damaged a further 50 after the Arba’at Dam collapsed in Sudan’s Red Sea State Sunday, affecting 50,000 homes, according to the UN.
Sudan is also planning on building the Merowe Dam south of the Kajbar and enlarging the Roseires Dam, located 300 miles southeast of Khartoum on the Blue Nile. [3] It is estimated that the building of these projects would likely lead to Sudan exceeding its water allotments from the 1959 treaty.
The collapse of the Arbaat Dam in Sudan’s eastern Red Sea state over the weekend flooded nearby homes and killed at least 30 people following heavy rains, a U.N. agency said. The U.N. Office for ...
When completed it was the largest dam in the world. [1] The dam was built by Gibson and Pauling (Foreign) Ltd, which was a partnership between the British civil engineering company Pauling & Co. and the civil engineer John Watson Gibson. [2] In 2003 a hydroelectricity project with a 30-megawatt (40,000 hp) maximum capacity was completed on the dam.
At an open-air, riverbank factory where the Blue Nile and White Nile meet in Sudan, Mohamed Ahmed al Ameen and his colleagues mould thousands of bricks every day from mud deposited by summer floods.