Qualla: Wadi Seidna Air Base https://qualla.com/wadi-seidna-air-base en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/wadi-seidna-air-base-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Wadi Seidna Air Base https://qualla.com/wadi-seidna-air-base Wadi Seidna Air Base: Introduction https://qualla.com/wadi-seidna-air-base/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. On the night of 22-23 April 2023, a French Air Force C-130 Hercules approached Wadi Seidna Air Base on night-vision goggles. Onboard were French commandos of Operation Sagittaire. Khartoum International Airport had been closed since the war began a week earlier. Every foreign embassy in the Sudanese capital needed its nationals out, and only one functional runway remained in reach: a desert strip 22 kilometers north of Khartoum that had been a US Army Air Forces ferrying field during World War II, and that now, for seventy-two hours in April 2023, would become the world's evacuation point.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/wadi-seidna-air-base-wp/sdz1-wadi-seidna-air-base-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wadi Seidna Air Base: A Ferrying Field in the Desert https://qualla.com/wadi-seidna-air-base/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. Wadi Seidna's origin is older than Sudan's independence. On 2 December 1942, with the Second World War raging across North Africa, the US Army Air Forces activated the 46th Ferrying Squadron at the base. The squadron was part of the Air Transport Command's 13th Ferrying Group, wh...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/wadi-seidna-air-base-wp/sdz1-wadi-seidna-air-base-a-ferrying-field-in-the-desert.mp3 0:06 2 full Wadi Seidna Air Base: The Sudanese Air Force's Northern Base https://qualla.com/wadi-seidna-air-base/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. After Sudanese independence in 1956, Wadi Seidna continued as a military base under the Sudanese Air Force. Its location - 22 kilometers north of central Khartoum, 1.5 kilometers west of the Nile, with the Khartoum VOR-DME (identifier KTM) 15.2 nautical miles south - made it a na...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/wadi-seidna-air-base-wp/sdz1-wadi-seidna-air-base-the-sudanese-air-forces-northern-base.mp3 0:06 3 full Wadi Seidna Air Base: Three Days in April https://qualla.com/wadi-seidna-air-base/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. What happened between 22 and 26 April 2023 at Wadi Seidna was one of the most complex multinational evacuation operations of the twenty-first century. The French got there first - Operation Sagittaire landed a C-130 on 22-23 April with commandos who negotiated access with the Sud...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/wadi-seidna-air-base-wp/sdz1-wadi-seidna-air-base-three-days-in-april.mp3 0:06 4 full Wadi Seidna Air Base: A Base Under Siege https://qualla.com/wadi-seidna-air-base/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. The evacuations ended but the fighting did not. On 21 May 2023, Rapid Support Forces fighters in about 20 trucks tried to cross the Nile on a bridge east of Wadi Seidna to reach the airfield. Heavy SAF artillery stopped them. The RSF pressure on the base would continue for years....

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/wadi-seidna-air-base-wp/sdz1-wadi-seidna-air-base-a-base-under-siege.mp3 0:06 5 full Wadi Seidna Air Base: What a Runway Is For https://qualla.com/wadi-seidna-air-base/ Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. The history of Wadi Seidna tells you something about what air bases are, in the end. They are flat ground and pavement. They are fuel storage and ordnance bunkers. They are, more importantly, access: the place where the outside world can reach this particular piece of geography, ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/wadi-seidna-air-base-wp/sdz1-wadi-seidna-air-base-what-a-runway-is-for.mp3 0:06 6 full