{"id":32143,"date":"2025-04-16T15:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=32143"},"modified":"2025-05-27T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:18:11","slug":"tuti-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tuti-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuti Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tuti Island Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Since the outbreak of civil war on April 15, 2023, between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Tuti Island has been devastated by violence and occupation.<\/p>\n<h2>About Tuti Island<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tuti Island<\/strong>, located at the <strong>confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers<\/strong> in <strong>Khartoum<\/strong>, Sudan, is one of the city\u2019s <strong>oldest settlements<\/strong>, known for its lush greenery and agriculture.<\/li>\n<li>The island spans <strong>8 square kilometres<\/strong> and was traditionally dependent on <strong>farming and fishing<\/strong>, earning the nickname <strong>\u201cKhartoum\u2019s garden.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It holds deep cultural significance for the <strong>Mahas community<\/strong>, who settled there in the <strong>15th century<\/strong>, making the island a symbol of <strong>indigenous identity and sustainability<\/strong> in the region.<\/li>\n<li>As per <strong>UN estimates<\/strong>, the war has <strong>displaced 13 million people<\/strong>, killed <strong>tens of thousands<\/strong>, and pushed <strong>100,000 into famine conditions<\/strong> in Khartoum alone.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate change<\/strong> has worsened Tuti Island\u2019s vulnerability by <strong>disrupting the Nile\u2019s natural flooding cycle<\/strong>, causing <strong>flooding, droughts, and desertification<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Due to the dual threats of <strong>conflict and climate change<\/strong>, the <strong>HEART Project (Heritage Empowered Action for Risk in Tuti)<\/strong> was initiated to <strong>preserve the Taya system<\/strong> and <strong>document community knowledge<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20250415-sudan-war-drains-life-from-once-thriving-island-in-capital-s-heart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">F24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuti Island, located at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers in Khartoum, Sudan, is one of the city\u2019s oldest settlements, known for its lush greenery and agriculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":32144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,152,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-32143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-tuti-island","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}