The new city of Halfa is distinguished by its historical peculiarity, as it is the only city in Sudan that was established specifically to settle the residents of Wadi Halfa, which was flooded by the waters of the High Dam Lake and was established in a period of approximately three years where you find that all the housing is similar and built on one model. Therefore, its history is related to the history of the construction of the High Dam.he government of Sudan concluded with the Egyptian government on November 8, 1959 AD the Nile Water Agreement with the aim of controlling the flow of the Nile water and making the most of it, which gave Egypt the opportunity to build a huge dam at Aswan, which resulted in the formation of a large artificial lake that extended its area inside the borders of Sudan With a distance of about six hundred kilometers, the waters of Wadi Halfa and its surrounding villages will be submerged. It was agreed to displace the residents of the flooded areas to new settlement complexes in the plains of Kom Ombo in the Aswan Governorate in Egypt and the Khashm al-Qirba area in eastern Sudan, on the Atbara River, where a new city was built in the name of New Halfa.