Al-Mansoura (Aden)
Al Mansoora (Arabic: المنصورة, al-manṣūrah) is a city district in Aden Governorate, Yemen, with a population of 114,931 according to 2004 census.
Al Mansoura was named after a resolution made by Aden Legislative Council in 1962. The construction of the neighbourhood is associated with the acute housing crisis in the colony of Aden between 1955 and 1962 as a result of the increasing population and expanding British Military Base.
Of the most important architectural landmarks Mansoura prison built by the Government of the colony of Aden, between 1962-63, a political prison builds by the British at the start of the armed struggle for the arrest of activists of partisans's Liberation Army and the armed revolution, currently in prison for the continued unity of the Yemeni Central Security.
Coordinates: 12°51′11″N 44°58′20″E / 12.8531°N 44.9722°E
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