Rights and Decisions to Return: Internally Displaced Persons in Post-war Sudan

Housing as process: towards a multi-sectoral approach to urban poverty reduction in Khartoum

“…The pull of the city can be attributed to "geographically and socially uneven development and the concomitant depression of rural ecosystems and communities, the long civil war and armed conflicts, [and] natural disasters like drought and famine" (Eltayeb, 2003). Of the metropolis' population of nearly six million people, 40% are estimated to be internally displaced people (Assal, 2008). This entails special vulnerabilities on top of the overall economic poverty rates, with about "80% of households in Greater Khartoum classified as being of low-income" (Hamid and Elhassan, 2014, p.185).…”

“…Khartoum is no exception; while the different housing schemes and master plans continuously struggle to reach scale, the city's rapid growth is unhindered. The politics of urban planning 1 in Khartoum has inarguably generated what Assal (2008) terms Khartoum's 'pathological' urbanisation. As Babiker (2003) rightly points out, Khartoum is "perhaps the most over-planned city in the world" (18); none of its five master plans ] the latest being the Khartoum Structural Plan 5 (KSP5) ] have been implemented.…”

Trips Production in Khartoum State

“…Khartoum was established by Ibrahim B Pasha, as an outpost of the Egyptian army and as a regional trading post in 1821, and was proclaimed the capital of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium in 1899 [1]. Following independence in 1956, Khartoum"s population grew from 250,000 to an estimated 3.3 million in 1990 [1], [2]. By 2005, official estimates put the capital"s population at 4.5 million, though unofficial estimates quote more than 7 million [1].…”

“…Following independence in 1956, Khartoum"s population grew from 250,000 to an estimated 3.3 million in 1990 [1], [2]. By 2005, official estimates put the capital"s population at 4.5 million, though unofficial estimates quote more than 7 million [1]. The latest census in 2008, found that Khartoum"s population had fallen to about 5.27 million [3].…”

“…Thereafter, the State of Khartoum decided to develop a new plan to put an end to irregularities in land use in Khartoum, the so called Khartoum Structural Plan . The main aim of the plan is to integrate different neighborhoods by connecting the various parts of the city with road networks and transport systems [1]. The plan"s main objective is to ease reduce congestion in the center, remove squatter settlements and replace them with so-called "popular housing", and relocate government institutions, military barracks and educational institutions to the city"s periphery.…”