Kabkabiya District

Kabkabiya
District
CountrySudan
StateNorth Darfur
Population
 (2008)
 • Total191,414

Kabkabiya is a district of North Darfur state, Sudan.[1][2]

Kabkabiya is home to a military base and has been a main location with the Battle of Kabkabiya during the 2023 Sudan war.[3] In May 2004, it held 45,000–95,000 internally displaced persons during the War in Darfur.[4]

Its town of the same name was one of few prior to the Anglo-Egyptian invasion of Sudan and an important access point to the caravan trade west of Cobbé under the Sultanate of Darfur.[5]

  1. ^ "Districts of Sudan". statoids. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  2. ^ "list of districts of Sudan" (PDF). Download Excel Files. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Mapping the heavy fighting in Sudan". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  4. ^ International Crisis Group (May 2004). SUDAN: NOW OR NEVER IN DARFUR (Report). p. 15.
  5. ^ El-Bushra, El-Sayed (1971). "Towns in the Sudan in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries". Sudan Notes and Records. 52: 65, 67. ISSN 0375-2984. JSTOR 42677876.