Khartoum International Airport — Khartoum, Sudan

KRT was built near the historic meeting point of the Blue Nile and White Nile, a geographic detail that made Khartoum strategically significant centuries before aviation existed. As Sudan's capital and largest metropolitan area, Khartoum relied on this airport as its primary link to the outside world for decades, even as its aging single-runway layout struggled with rising demand and its close proximity to downtown limited easy expansion. Plans for a replacement facility on the capital's outskirts circulated for years before construction finally advanced. More recently, the airport and the wider city have suffered serious disruption amid internal conflict, with operations repeatedly halted and infrastructure damaged in the fighting. Despite this, Khartoum remains central to Sudanese aviation, and any recovery of normal civil aviation across the country will likely hinge on how quickly facilities in or near KRT can resume safe, regular service.