Modeling the Relative Humidity in New Halfa Agricultural Scheme (Sudan)

Abstract

The construction of the Aswan High Dam, in the early 1960’s, was a huge disaster to the Sudanese Nubians living in the border town of Wadi Halfa and the neighboring villages. The dam buried the oldest civilization land in Africa which back to more than 3000 B.C under its water. Consequently, more than 50,000 Sudanese Nubians (Halfawien) had to be relocated to new villages in northeastern Sudan near to the Atbara River called New Halfa, about 850 kilometers southeast of their original homes [1,2]. It is one of the largest centrally planned and executed human relocations in the world history [3]. Several observers of the exodus operations alarm that a large amount of Nubian’s mineral wealth might have been obscured in the lake waters. But the humanitarian factor in the evacuation of Nubians to their new residences is definitely the worst one.