ad-Du'ain
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الضعين Ed Daein Ad-Du'ain |
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| Coordinates | 11 ° 26 ' N , 26 ° 10' E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Sudan | ||
| Sharq Darfur | |||
| District | ad-Du'ain | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SD-DE | ||
| Residents | 193,464 (calculation 2013) | ||
| politics | |||
| governor | Siddigh abdel-Nabi Hassan | ||
Ad-Du'ain ( Arabic الضعين, DMG aḍ-Ḍuʿain ), alternative spelling Ed Daein (also Ed Dain , ad-Dain , Al Deain or El Dain ), is the capital of the Sudanese state Scharq Darfur , which was created in 2012 .
location
The city is located around 850 km southwest of Khartoum and around 150 km southeast of Nyala , the capital of the state of Dschanub Darfur . Ad-Du'ain is on the railway line between the cities of Nyala in the west and al-Ubayyid in the east. Passenger train traffic is discontinued.
population
Ad-Du'ain has 193,464 inhabitants according to a 2013 calculation.
Population development:
| year | Residents |
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| 1973 (census) | 18,457 |
| 1983 (census) | 21,666 |
| 1993 (census) | 73,335 |
| 2012 (calculation) | 188,577 |
| 2013 (calculation) | 193.464 |
history
The city is the point of contact for many refugees in the ongoing conflict in Darfur . At the end of 2007, there were an estimated 50,000 internally displaced persons in the refugee camp. The WHO runs a hospital in the city to help those affected. When the railway line to the south of Wau was still in operation during the civil war in South Sudan, Ad-Du'ain was a trading post for slaves . Dinka children were sold to Arab traffickers here.
Ad-Du'ain became famous for a massacre on March 27, 1987 of Dinka, who fled the south here before the war of civil secession in South Sudan . Several hundred Dinka, most of them women and children, were murdered by the Arab Baggara Rizeigat.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ad̨-D̨u'ayn. ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. World Gazetter
- ↑ Insecurity prevents Darfur displaced from returning home. Sudan Tribune, December 2, 2007
- ↑ James Astill: Sudan's stolen children. Guardian, March 3, 2002
