Sudan Nile Dam Threatens To Drown Nubian Villages

Published on May 17, 2013 11:19 by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Social

The head of the anti-dam committee, Ezzeldeen Idris, told Al-Monitor that it is unclear how many villages will drown.

"The dam implementation unit failed to provide us with a feasibility study that tells us how high the dam will be, so we can't clearly say how many villages will be submerged," said Idris, who lives in Fareeg, one of the villages threatened.

Sometimes government officials make revealing statements about the dam, helping Nubians to estimate the extent of the damage.

"Qureshi said that the drowned area is 180 kilometers (112 miles), which means from Kajbar to Al-Guld, which is 25-30 kilometers from Dongola, the capital of Northern state," Ibrahim said.

Arif Gamal, a Nubian scholar now teaching at the University of California atBerkeley,wrote on RescueNubia.orgthat in 1964, as Nubians were being transported by train from their soon-to-be submerged villages, one woman left the train and ran back to the village. There was confusion on board for some time, and then as people were preparing to follow her, they saw her coming back. She went to lock her house, she told everyone. The woman's house was locked, but soon submerged in water. Half a century later, Nubians refuse to go through the same ordeal.

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