Sudan kassala
Khatmiya – old part of Kassala town underneath the Taka, Totil and Aweitila mountainsKassala town, eastern Sudan, near the Ethiopian border. Founded in 1834 as an Egyptian garrison, it was occupied by the Mahdists (1885–94) and briefly by the Italians (1940–41). Kassala is built on the inland delta of the seasonal Gash River at an elevation of 1,624 feet (495 metres) and is protected to the east and south by the Kassala and Mokram mountains. The town has declined as a cotton centre but has an extensive market trade and fruit gardens. It is linked by road, railway, and air to Khartoum and Port Sudan.
Current status
The Kassala region now has a child mortality rate twice that of the Darfur region.
The city is home to Kassala University, a public university established in 1990 to replace the East University, and an important institution for development in the east of Sudan
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