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Title: Stakeholder consultations were organized by the MEPD in Khartoum to discuss the draft of the UNEP PCEA report
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Keywords: post-conflict assessment, governance, Khartoum state

Title: Crocodile and python skin accessories are popular in markets in Khartoum
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Description: There is no data on the impact of this trade on reptile populations in Sudan

Keywords: fauna, wildlife conservation, endangered species, Khartoum state

Title: The Ministry of Environment and Physical Development in Khartoum
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: environmental management, governance, Khartoum state

Title: Consultations were held between the environment ministries of GONU and GOSS to discuss plans for environmental management
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: environmental management, capacity building, institution building, policies, structures, governance, Khartoum, Khartoum state

Title: School children in the Mandela camp for internally displaced persons in Khartoum state
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: The combined effects of conflict and food insecurity have caused over five million Sudanese to be displaced into camps and urban fringes

Keywords: internally displaced people, refugees, food shortage, food security, Khartoum state, human settlements

Title: A sandstorm in Khartoum in May 2006
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: Sand and dust storms are common throughout northern and central Sudan

Keywords: weather, Khartoum, Khartoum state

Title: This abandoned field within a collapsed irrigation scheme in Khartoum state previously supported low density rangeland
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: It now does not support anything and its remaining topsoil is being blown away

Keywords: irrigation, land use, agriculture, desertification, land degradation, rangeland management, soil degradation, Khartoum state

Title: Flash flooding 20 km north of Khartoum, September 2006
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: disasters, natural disasters, Khartoum, Khartoum state

Title: The submerged Sunut Forest wetland in the metropolitan Khartoum area, August 2006
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: The flooding of the Nile is an annual natural event

Keywords: forests, Khartoum, Jebel Bawzer (Sunut) Forest, Khartoum state, Nile river

Title: The role of vegetation in controlling desertification is exemplified in this photograph of degraded rangeland in Khartoum state
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: The clump of grass has been grazed but its roots still retain the underlying soil, while surrounding soil has been removed by wind erosion

Keywords: desertification, deserts, drought, land degradation, rangeland management, soil degradation, Khartoum state

Title: Waste pickers at the main Khartoum landfill site
Date created: 22 Jun 2007
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Description: Waste management is problematic throughout Sudan

Keywords: Khartoum, Khartoum state, landfill/dumpsite, domestic wastes, environmental sanitation, sanitation, solid waste management, waste disposal, waste treatment, waste management

Title: The capital Khartoum is by far the largest city in Sudan
Date created: 22 Jun 2007
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Keywords: Khartoum, Khartoum state, urbanisation

Title: Large-scale informal settlements have multiplied in the Khartoum area since the 1980s
Date created: 22 Jun 2007
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Description: Most of these settlements have very limited access to water, and no sewage of waste management

Keywords: environmental health, public health, Khartoum, Khartoum state, human settlements, urbanisation, land tenure, domestic wastes, environmental sanitation, sewage disposal, sewerage, solid waste management, waste disposal, waste treatment, waste management

Title: Raw sewage flowing to the White Nile
Date created: 22 Jun 2007
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Description: Though there is a sewage network in Khartoum, it does not cover the entire city and no longer works properly, as it is stretched well beyond capacity

Keywords: environmental health, Khartoum, Khartoum state, water pollution, urbanisation, environmental sanitation, sewage disposal, sanitation, sewerage

Title: Sewage being transferred to the Khartoum sewage works
Date created: 22 Jun 2007
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Description: The majority of the urban population of Sudan relies on basic latrines or septic tanks that are emptied by truck.

Keywords: environmental health, Khartoum, Khartoum state, water pollution, urbanisation, environmental sanitation, sewage disposal, sanitation, sewerage

Title: Open air burning is the most common method of waste disposal in settlements such as this one on the southern fringe of Khartoum
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: environmental health, Khartoum, Khartoum state, human settlements, urbanisation, domestic wastes, solid waste management, waste disposal, waste management

Title: Compressed earth blocks have been used in the construction of several buildings in Khartoum
Date created: 22 Jun 2007
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Description: Stabilized earth construction techniques combine the advantages of traditional earth and modern brick construction

Keywords: Khartoum, Khartoum state, urbanisation, technology

Title: Chlorine storage cylinders outside a chemical plant in Barri, Metropolitan Khartoum
Date created: 22 Jun 2007
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Description: The UNEP assessment of the industrial sector included visits to many factories. Access was normally granted without restriction

Keywords: industrial chemicals, Khartoum, Bahri, Khartoum state, industrial plant

Title: Waste oil discharged onto the ground from a lubricant factory in Khartoum state
Date created: 22 Jun 2007
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Keywords: Khartoum state, oil pollution, pollution control, pollution sources, industrial plant, environmental sanitation, waste treatment

Title: Industrial waste burning on vacant land in Khartoum state
Date created: 22 Jun 2007
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Description: Waste management and water pollution are two areas in need of improved governance

Keywords: Khartoum state, industrial pollution, landfill/dumpsite, solid waste management, waste management

Title: Cultivation of the highly fertile gerf lands in Khartoum state
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Keywords: agriculture, Khartoum state

Title: A charcoal market in Khartoum
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Keywords: deforestation, forest degradation, forests, forestry, energy supply, wood fuels, Khartoum, Khartoum state