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A year under the RSF: what happened to Wad Madani, the city where Gezira College of Medical Sciences and Technology and the University of Gezira teach medicine
Wad Madani, the capital of Gezira state, is home to two medical schools in the World Directory: the public University of Gezira, one of Sudan's oldest medical faculties, and the private Gezira College of Medical Sciences and Technology. Both sit in a city that, for thirteen months, was held by the Rapid Support Forces.
According to Middle East Eye, the RSF captured Wad Madani on 19 December 2023, taking Sudan's second-largest city and sending tens of thousands of people who had fled Khartoum there into flight again. The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, in a report on Gezira under RSF control, documented the looting of the University of Gezira, including the theft of medical equipment and the destruction of its Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Laboratories. Scholars at Risk recorded the university among institutions attacked in the war. Studies cited in the Sudanese medical-education literature reported that in Gezira state around a tenth of government universities and a smaller share of private ones were occupied, with some campuses partially or completely damaged and teaching halted, so that students had either to find expensive ways to continue elsewhere or to stop. AllAfrica reported the Sudanese army retaking Wad Madani in January 2025, with the RSF leadership vowing a counter-attack.
Nobody in this account is accused of fraud, and the college named here is a victim of the same occupation as its public neighbour. The case is on this site for the same reason as the Khartoum cases: a directory entry describes a school as it was licensed, not as it stands today, and agents do not update their brochures for wars. A student offered a "confirmed seat" in Wad Madani needs to know where teaching and clinical rotations are physically happening this year, under which agreement, and whether the home regulator will accept training delivered at a relocated site.
Ask the college in writing, from an official address, for exactly that. Ask your regulator whether a relocated or interrupted programme will be recognised; India's NMC, for example, requires the whole course at one institution. Treat any intermediary who cannot answer the first question as the answer. And hold on to the fact that the students of Wad Madani, displaced twice, are the people a site like this exists to protect.
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