Shalateen

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Coordinates: 23°7′54″N 35°35′8″E / 23.13167, 35.58556
Shalateen
Shalateen Location
Country	Sudan and Egypt

Shalateen is a disputed town between Egypt and Sudan that is 520 km south of Hurghada. It comprises five villages:

Abu Ramad — 125km to the south
Hala'ib — 165km to the south
Ras Hadarba — 22km to the north
Marsa Hameera — 40km to the north
Abrak — 90km to the west

Egyptian ministries and authorities are in the process of establishing their presence in the area and operate in conjunction with the City Council to provide services to the local communities according to the policies and programs of their respective organizations. The military is responsible for security and law enforcement in the Halaib. Red Sea Governorate's popular council including many members from the bisharia and Ababda leader, which responsible about decisions and determine the local people need and support local people participation in management and development of this area.

Egypt government also provides additional social services to the local communities. While there is some local representation of the tribes on the City Council. A wide range of social services are being provided, such as food, water, monetary assistance, subsidies, health care, veterinary care, housing and education, and from 5 year anew international Airport in Marsa Alam was built(about 270 km from Shalateen city) which Egyptian policy makers target towards more development for the southern area reion included Shalateen area.

Local tribes in Halaib and Shalateen area have been little exposed to modernization under Sudanese administration and also may be under Egyptian administration until 1992. But The Egyptian Government started to implement a development plan especially after 1992 when it started to build some settlements, about 500 house build in Shalateen, 250 in Aboramad and Halaib depending on Shalateen local council sources, roads also established a 250 kilometer road between shalteen Marsa alam city in north, and also a new 3 huge electricity generator we operated since 1993. In 1993-94 it launched a plan for the social economic development of the area. Services and economic support were delivered in the main towns and villages as well as infrastructures were built. Financial and in-kind donations were sponsored for a total amount of 1.5 billion L.E. currently; the Government is supporting local families with 70 L.E. per month, and 3 L.E. per day to each child going to school. Now we can easily see many high educated people, and many local people work as government, NGOs and private sector employee, which this will help in more development.

Depending on that and for the government development policy, many people from the mountains moved to towns in order to benefit from these services. They were given houses with permanent water source, food supply, electricity and education. So far, approximately 8,000 people sedentarized along the coast. According to this plan, communities in the urban areas have no doubt improved their livelihood.

local community in Haliab area has been involved completely in management of Gabel Elba Protected Area as a community guides and also as environmental researchers in management and conservation the natural resources of this area, local people also involved in decision making process, WFP-projec in this area 'support bedouin life project' represent a good example from the Egyptian government for participation local people and a community-based management projects.

Halaib Tringle Future:

Also this conflict between Egypt and Sudan, but sure the both nations can cooperate together towards initiate a collaborative plan for development this area. A Trans-boundary Natural Resources Management Approach (TBNRM) can be the best method for management this area between Egypt and Sudan for one goal, the benefit of local people. There is a good ideal example for TBNRM between the South African countries for that we hope if we can initiate and implement this example in northern Africa in Halaib Triangle as a good approach for management the conflict by co-work.

- Halaib and Shalateen Attractions:- The Camel Market, one of Shalateen’s most memorable attractions, lies in the vast backyard of this small town and has thousands of camels on display. Buyers from all across Egypt converge here to choose from the different breeds brought by herders who come from Sudan on foot. Some buyers want fine-looking white camels, possibly for tourist-related businesses; others look for strong, well-built camels that can handle hard labor, while many are just looking for pounds of meat.

After the shopping is done, the camels are taken to the loading area, where they climb into the trucks with the help of man-made platforms and ramps. If this area is too crowded, the men have no choice but to heft the camel into the truck themselves. Riding a camel is easy, but carrying it is hard. It takes about half a dozen men to lift one small camel into a truck.^{[citation needed]}

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[edit] References

Shalateen. Red Sea Governorate.

Sources related with Bisharia and Ababda tribes status in south Egypt:

Metrash,A.& Pozzan, E (2002). Preliminary Study of the Local Communities in Elba Protected Area,Report submited for EIECP,EGYPTIAN ITALIAN ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION PROGRAM - PHASE II EEAA,Egypt