WARNING: Travel to Darfur is strongly discouraged. The FCO advises against all travel to Nyala, despite the fact that the city is much safer than the countryside.
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Nyala is a large city in Darfur.

Understand

Nyala is an industrial city and the capital of southern Darfur. It is a major trading post for Gum arabic. Although Nyala is in Darfur, it has escaped most of the violent conflict; however there are thousands of refugees in camps just outside the city.

Get in

By plane

• 1 Nyala Airport (UYL  ^IATA). The small airport sees multiple daily flights from Khartoum with Sudan Airways.  

By train

Nyala is also the western terminus of the rail network in Sudan. Services are sporadic and there is no fixed timetable, there should at least be 1-2 services from Khartoum each month, as well as a service from Ar Rahad. Journey time are up to 50 hours.

Sleep

• 1 Al Daman Hotel, ☏ +249 71 182 5330. One of few hotels in town, often used by government and business travellers. (updated Sep 2017)