CHINESE GORDON: THE STORY OF A HERO (256 pp.)—Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson—Funk & Waqnalls ($4). When General Charles George Gordon was speared to death at ...

sends viewers to the history books (or websites) to obtain a slightly better grasp of the events depicted, that’s certainly not a bad thing. But for those who aren’t already history buffs (or who aren ...

One of Khartoums oldest and most loved hotels has survived coups, wars, and even a bomb attack, but it couldn't weather Sudan's civil war. The Acropole Hotel stood as a landmark in central Khartoum ...

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Mohammed Hussain, a merchant, is a refugee in his own city. A few months after civil war broke out in Khartoum’s streets in April, he tried to take his sick father to hospital. But the roads were ...

In 1884 a Sudanese boatman, turned religious seer, involved the British Empire in a sticky little war. Mohamed Ahmed, who had declared himself the Mahdi, the long-awaited messiah of Islamic tradition, ...

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan ’s military on Friday retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion of rival paramilitary forces in the capital, after nearly two years of fighting.

DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) -The Sudanese army seized full control of the presidential palace in downtown Khartoum on Friday, it said in a statement, in what would be a major gain in a two-year-old conflict ...

Oct 22 (Reuters) - The planned reopening of Sudan's main airport in Khartoum after a two-and-a-half year shutdown was delayed on Wednesday after drone attacks in the morning and on Tuesday, an airline ...

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have targeted Sudan’s capital Khartoum and its main airport with drones for a fourth consecutive day, as the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) ...

KHARTOUM: All that remains of Afaf al-Tayeb’s home in Sudan’s Khartoum province is a charred, windowless structure with peeling paint — yet in June, she eagerly returned, feeling safe again for the ...