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What are those structures in Sudan?

Travel Asked by Eric Duminil on October 24, 2021

While flying back from La Réunion to Paris, we flew over those well defined structures:

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I think it corresponds to this location on the map:

https://goo.gl/maps/Wz1paAFsGGQjULYa7

At 13.9916°N, 35.9597°E.

Do you know what those are? Is this a refugee camp? There are refugee camps a few km away (Shagarab Refugees camp) but they look much less structured.

Reverse image search didn’t bring anything interesting.

One Answer

This area is called "Fushqa" (Arabic: فشقة), it's a border area between Sudan and Ethiopia which was disputed, now it belongs to Sudan.

The structured area you see is a "modern" village, built by the government of Sudan for the local farmers to encourage them to stay since the land is fertile and being a disputed land with a few attacks from Ethiopian militias people needed a good reason to feel safe and stay, building these villages provide some sort of security better than having them scattered around a huge area with no facilities.

Sources: 1, 2

Answered by Nean Der Thal on October 24, 2021

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