Wisram,
Nice kaskara. I'll defer to Iain on the blade. Looks old. The grip has a space at the top to attach the missing Beja/Hadendawa tassle so its from Eastern Sudan or the Beja parts of Eritrea.
Is the cross guard chisel pointed? If so and looks like one piece construction its was probably made in mid-20th. Cent in Kassala where it one-piece unit was developed. If its welded together it could be earlier and made in Sennar (on the Nile) or Atbara or Port Sudan area (both Hadendawa territory).
The scabbard has a different angular shape and not like those typically made in Kassala. Probably WW2 and later era scabbards had thin wood next to the blade, then covered with cloth and on to was usually goatskin. (Since at least the 1980s they have used cardboard rather than wood.) I'd guess that the goatskin was in bad shape and removed or may have been in a stage of rehab when collected.
Bottom line guess. Probably assembled between in the 1920s-30s.
Ed
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