Afra Mall

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Afra Mall (Arabic: مركز عفراء التجاري) was a shopping mall in Khartoum, Sudan. It opened in January 2004 as the country’s first mall. The complex offered a hypermarket, a cinema, an ice-skating rink, an internet café, a food court, currency exchanges, and many shops across several floors. It covered about 480,000 square feet (45,000 square meters) and had around 380 parking spaces. The mall was managed by Bullary LLC and owned by MZK Stores. In May 2012, a large part of the mall caught fire and it was renovated afterward. In the early weeks of the 2023–present Sudanese civil war, its stores were looted and damaged. The mall was later destroyed by fire and shelling, with the RSF and SAF blaming each other for the destruction.