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Geography: Al Qadarif State is in (Eastern Sudan) sharing an international border with Ethiopia to the east. The state shares borders with four Sudanese states: Kassala and Khartoum states to the north, Al-Jazira State to the west and Sennar to the south.
Capital: Al Qadarif
Towns: Doka, Gallabat.
Area: 75,263 km2 (29,059 sq mi)
Population: 1,369,300 (2006 (est.)
Time zone: EAT (UTC+3)
Al Qadarif State Government
Al Qadarif State is a member of the Eastern Sudan States Coordinating Council, established as part of the June 2006 Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Eastern Front.
- Thursday 14 February 2013
February 13, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Members from the Eastern Front (EF), a former rebel group who are part of the East Reconstruction and Development Fund (ERDF), unleashed a barrage of criticism at Khartoum, claiming that the latter has (...)
- Friday 1 June 2012
May 31, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan’s Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) has ordered seven foreign aid groups to suspend their humanitarian activities in eastern Sudan following the findings of an assessment study reporting infractions they (...)
- Friday 10 August 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
August 9, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia is making final preparations to begin permanently exporting power to neighbouring Sudan which would enable Khartoum to replace its thermal power generating units with (...)
- Wednesday 29 August 2012
August 28, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A Sudanese presidential assistant representing the eastern part of the country has complained about his lack of inclusion in decision-making. FILE PHOTO - Sudan’s presidential assistant and former eastern (...)
- Monday 16 April 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
April 15, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Sudanese state of Gedaref is sending an official letter of complaint to the Ethiopian government over the recent attack by armed men targeting governor of the Eastern Sudanese (...)
- Saturday 5 May 2012
May 4, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The governor of Gedaref state Karamallah Abbas has submitted his resignation to president Omer Hassan al-Bashir who accepted it, Sudan state media reported. Gedaref state governor Karamallah Abbas
Because Abbas (...)
- Wednesday 11 April 2012
April 10, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The legislative council of Al-Qadarif State in eastern Sudan rejected on Tuesday a motion to impeach the state governor, Karam Allah Abbas, for his alleged support to normalising ties between Sudan and (...)
- Sunday 6 May 2012
May 5, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The governor of Gedaref state Karamallah Abbas denied that he resigned voluntarily as was reported by state media and the ruling National Congress Party (NCP). Former governor of Gedaref state Karamallah Abbas (...)
- Monday 8 October 2012
By Magdi El Gizouli
October 8, 2012 — Sudan’s major grain producers, the landowners of Gedaref, complained bitterly to the press this week of an acute shortage of labour and warned of yet another failed agricultural season. The local (...)
- Monday 24 September 2012
September 23, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese minister of finance and national economy, Ali Mahmoud, complained on Sunday that the government is facing a number of obstacles in slashing its spending as planned under austerity measures (...)
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