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Kassala

American  
[kah-sah-lah, kas-uh-luh] / ˈkɑ sɑˌlɑ, ˈkæs ə lə /

noun

  1. a city in the E Sudan, near Eritrea.


Kassala British  
/ kəˈsɑːlə /

noun

  1. a city in the E Sudan: founded as a fort by the Egyptians in 1834. Pop: 430 000 (2005 est)

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Mr Fletcher's first field visit took him to Mahmoud’s Maygoma orphanage in Kassala in eastern Sudan, now home to nearly 100 children in a crumbling three-storey school-turned-shelter.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024

Speaking in the city of Kassala on Saturday, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who has been Sudan's head of state since 2019, vowed to vanquish the RSF.

From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2023

Similar protests also occurred in other parts of the country, including the provinces of Kassala and West Darfur, and the coastal city of Port Sudan.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021

There were also protests in elsewhere in the country, such as the coastal city of Port Sudan, the eastern city of Kassala and the northern city of Atbara, the birthplace of the uprising against al-Bashir.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

Governor of Kassala and the Red Sea littoral, to whom I have previously referred when we were advancing against Omdurman, was menacing the dervish outpost of Gedarif.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh

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