Challenges Facing Post-War Infrastructure Projects in Khartoum State, Sudan
Abstract
Abstract The armed conflict that erupted in Sudan in April 2023 has inflicted extensive and systematic damage on the infrastructure of Khartoum State, including strategic bridges, power and water networks, and public buildings, and has created an unprecedented reconstruction challenge. This paper provides a peer-reviewed statistical assessment of the challenges expected to face post-war infrastructure projects in Khartoum State, based on a secondary psychometric and inferential re-analysis of a cross-sectional survey of 133 engineers and professionals conducted in 2024. The instrument comprised 22 items organised into seven challenge domains: the post-war state of infrastructure, economic and political challenges, funding and external support, social challenges, brain drain and administrative corruption, technical and logistical challenges, and environmental and technological challenges. Item-level response distributions were reconstructed from the reported frequency tables, and the inter-item correlation structure was calibrated through a Gaussian copula to the reported Cronbach’s alpha of 0.809 (McDonald’s omega = 0.851). All seven domains scored significantly above the neutral midpoint (one-sample t and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, p
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