Kosti, Sudan
13.1732.66Koordinaten: 13 ° 10 ' N, 32 ° 40 ' E
Kusti (Arabic كوستي Kusti; alternative spelling Kosti, in the 19th century known as Goz Abu Guma or Gor - Abu- Gama ) is a city on the White Nile in Sudanese state on Nile Al- Abyad.
Location
The city is located at about 390 meters above sea level on the western bank of the White Nile, about 260 kilometers south of Khartoum, and thus in the middle of the road connecting the capital to El Obeid. Opposite Kusti on the eastern riverbank located Rabak, the state capital of An- Nil al Abyad -.
Population
For the Kosti area 316 647 inhabitants ( 2013 calculation ) can be specified.
Population development:
Economy
The most important and has approximately 12,000 employees employer in the region is located on the eastern side of the Nile at Rabak Kenana Sugar Factory. It is a joint stock company, in which apart from the Sudanese government, the government of Saudi Arabia, and among other things, a Kuwaiti company and the British mining company Lonrho are involved. In the 1970s, the sugar growing south of the Gezira level was strongly supported by President Numairi with loans from the World Bank. Because of corruption and mismanagement, the Kenana sugar cultivation project initially proved as deficient, since the record harvest of 2001 Kenana is one of the world's most efficient sugar factories. From 1990, Sudan began exporting sugar to neighboring countries. In 2006, the production of 450,000 tonnes, a further expansion of capacity, exports to the European Union after 2009, and participation in business with biofuels are planned. The irrigated by canals sugar cane fields located between Kusti and Sennar. East of the Nile lies the irrigation project of Asalaya Sugar Factory.
Kosti is hub for the cultivation of cotton on the White Nile.
Because of the civil war in southern Sudan 1982, the plans were abandoned oil refinery in Kosti to build. Alternatively, the construction of a pipeline from the oil-producing area around Bentiu on Kosti to the refinery at Port Sudan was in 1985 by the operating company White Nile Petroleum Company decided. 2007, a new proposal to build a refinery in Kosti were made.
Cityscape
Center of the city is invested in a rectangular street grid market district Souq Kebir ( " big market ") on the banks of the Nile River with the port and the train south. Three kilometers to the southwest is a newer, larger in area market area, the Souq Shabi ( " young market " ), with small craft and the central bus station. Around the center extend sprawling residential areas.
Infrastructure
Kosti is connected to Khartoum on a good asphalt road. The river port is used to exchange goods via the Nile Malakal to Juba. The operation of the once- weekly trains running passenger ship to Juba was set with the start of the civil war in 1983 and has since been not resumed. The few barges on the Nile are in poor condition and are forced at low tide for a break. Flussab need these ships from Juba 7 days upriver in 21 days. The port of Kosti has no loading cranes.
The train station (13 ° 9 ' 53 "N, 32 ° 40' 37 " O13.16472222222232.676944444444 ) from Kosti is located on the route between Khartoum and Nyala in Darfur Lying west. The passenger traffic on this route was discontinued. A few kilometers east of the city lies the old Kusti Railway Bridge. The rail link with Wau is south of Aweil because of destroyed railroad no longer.
The airport has a flight path length of 1338 meters and the international identifier KST.
Attractions
In the nearby, 14 -kilometer-long river island Aba al- Kar - mosque is Muhammad Ahmad, who taught here and in 1881 declared a Mahdi. The island is connected by Rabak accessible and connected to the mainland by a causeway.