{"id":184810,"date":"2014-07-14T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/collapse-at-west-darfur-s-new-airport\/"},"modified":"2014-07-14T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:03:00","slug":"collapse-at-west-darfur-s-new-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/collapse-at-west-darfur-s-new-airport","title":{"rendered":"Collapse at West Darfur\u2019s new airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large parts of El Shaheed Sibeira Airport in West Darfur\u2019s capital El Geneina have collapsed, three weeks after its inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>The director of the West Darfur State airports company, Abdel Mahmoud, told the press on Saturday that the damage was caused by a sand storm. \u201cThe damage, estimated at more than SDG3 million ($500,000), is limited to the eastern side of the airport\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The construction of the new airport cost $45 million. 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The director of the West Darfur State airports company, Abdel Mahmoud, told the press on Saturday that the damage was caused by a sand storm. \u201cThe damage, estimated at more than SDG3 million ($500,000), is limited to the eastern side of the airport\u201d. The construction of the new airport cost $45 million. It was inaugurated by the First Vice President Bakri Hassan Saleh three weeks ago. A listener told Radio Dabanga from El Geneina that the collapse sparked panic among the citizens in the neighbourhoods adjacent to the airport. File photo: Nyala airport, South Darfur (skyscrapercity.com) Related:\u00a0Unamid Deputy Chief visits West Darfur (18 May 2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Collapse at West Darfur\u2019s new airport - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/collapse-at-west-darfur-s-new-airport\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Collapse at West Darfur\u2019s new airport - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Large parts of El Shaheed Sibeira Airport in West Darfur\u2019s capital El Geneina have collapsed, three weeks after its inauguration. 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