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Sudan's national mental health programme and burden of mental illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ehab Ali Sorketti
Ehab Ali Sorketti*
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Mandag General Hospital, Mandag PO Box 117, Al Baha Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sudan occupies 2 500 000 km2 in East Africa. It has borders with nine countries, two of which are Arab: Egypt, Libya, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, Chad, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Sudan is the largest country in Africa. The heart of the country, in terms of population, lies at the confluence of the Blue and White Niles. The complex of the ‘three towns', comprising the three largest cities, Khartoum, Khartoum North and Omdurman, is situated there and contains almost 20% of the population. The total population of Sudan is about 35.4 million (projected from the 2005 census). The urban population was estimated at 33% of the total. About 2.2 million are still entirely nomadic. Sudan's peoples are as diverse as its geography. There are 19 major ethnic groups and 597 subgroups.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 16 - 18
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