Al-Jazira State | Al-Gezira State

Capital: Wad Madani

Governor: El-Zubeir Bashir Taha

Geography: Al-Gezira State is in Sudan’s Blue Nile Region

Area: 27,549 km2 (10,637 sq miles)

Population 2,796,330 (2006 (est.))

Time zone: EAT (UTC+3)

Japan funds major upgrade to Al-Jazeerah girls’ school
Friday 22 March 2013
March 21, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The recent handover ceremony of Al-Jazeerah state’s Al-Komor Village Girls’ Primary School, which has undergone a series of extensive refurbishments, was attended by a number of foreign and Sudanese (...)
Sudan’s Gezira agricultural project is failing, governor says
Wednesday 13 March 2013
March 12, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The governor of Sudan’s Gezira state al-Zubair Bashir Taha slammed a government law adopted in 2005, saying it has done nothing to improve productivity of the country’s largest agricultural scheme that contains (...)
Sudanese police clash with service protesters in central state
Saturday 3 November 2012
November 2, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Villagers in Sudan’s central state of Al-Jazeera have been protesting against water and electricity cuts, witnesses told Sudan Tribune as the unrest entered its fourth day on Friday. The protests began on (...)
Hundreds of students clash with police in the Sudanese capital
Monday 10 December 2012
December 9, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese capital on Sunday witnessed intense and at times violent student demonstrations that roamed major streets of Khartoum to protest the mysterious killings of four students from Darfur at the (...)
South Sudanese labour: refill the ’kambo’
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 (...)

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