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  Khartoum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khartoum (الخرطوم al-Ḫarṭūm "Elephant Trunk") is the capital of Sudan and of Khartoum State.
Khartoum was founded in 1821 as an outpost for the Egyptian army, but grew as a regional center of trade, including the slave trade.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Khartoum was the destination for hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflicts in neighboring nations such as Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Uganda.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khartoum   (918 words)

  
 Travel in Khartoum Sudan - History
Khartoum is one of three sister cities, built at the convergence of the Blue and White Niles: Omdurman to the north-west across the White Nile, North Khartoum, and Khartoum itself on the southern bank of the Blue Nile.
Khartoum was sacked twice during the latter half of the 19th century -- once by the Mahdi and once by Kitchener when the Mahdi was ousted.
In Khartoum, the political vacuum arising from the army's lack of initiative was filled by the rise of the National Islamic Front (NIF), a fundamentalist organisation led by Sheikh Hassan al-Turabi which has since become the power behind the regime.
www.africatravelling.net /sudan/khartoum/khartoum_history.htm   (1184 words)

  
 Khartoum. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Khartoum is a railroad hub and is connected by road to the heart of the adjacent cotton-growing region.
Khartoum was retaken by H. Kitchener in 1898 and rebuilt.
An educational center, Khartoum is the site of the Univ. of Khartoum (founded 1903 as Gordon Memorial College), a branch of the Univ. of Cairo, and Khartoum Polytechnic.
www.bartleby.com /65/kh/Khartoum.html   (276 words)

  
 Gordon at Khartoum
Khartoum was hosted at the Carnage Convention in Ascutney Vermont on November 2, 2002 by Don Miller, Mike Bailey, Adam Rodgers, and myself (Bob Rodgers).
GENERAL GORDON arrived at Khartoum on February 18th, and spent his time between that date and the investment on March 12, in sending down women and children, two thousand of whom were sent safely through to Egypt, in addition to six hundred soldiers.
In the center of Khartoum he had built himself a tower, from the roof of which he kept a sharp lookout with his field-glass in the daytime.
www.principlesofwar.com /col/khartoum/Khartoum_index.html   (2572 words)

  
 Mussa Homepage, The Three towns capital
Winston Churchill wrote about Khartoum some 90 years ago that:” The town of Khartoum, at the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, is the point on which the trade of the south must inevitably converge.
During the years of the Egyptian administration, Khartoum had became a symbol of foreign domination and a few months after its capture the Khalifa Abdullahi, successor to the Mahdi now dead in his turn, decreed that it be abandoned.
Khartoum, damaged by siege and sack, was now a quarry for the new city.
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 Adventures of Sudan: Khartoum
Larger Khartoum is the second largest city of Muslim North Africa.
Khartoum could have been a melting pot for all of Sudan's peoples, but has become a blender.
The name Khartoum means 'Elephant's trunk', and it is the shape of the meeting point of the White and the Blue Nile, that shall resemble the trunk of an elephant.
lexicorient.com /sudan/khartoum.htm   (469 words)

  
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The town of Khartoum, at the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, is the point on which the trade of the south must inevitably converge.
The delay in the despatch of the relief expedition had sealed the fate of Khartoum, and the fall of the town established the supremacy of the military spirit on which the Dervish Empire was afterwards founded.
So soon as he made his formal demand from Khartoum for the assistance of Zubehr it was evident that his belief in the old slave dealer's usefulness was a sound conviction and not a mere passing caprice.
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 Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Al-Shifa ("Health") pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan was constructed between 1992 and 1996 with components imported from the United States, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, India, and Thailand.
The Khartoum attack was noted for its outstanding precision, as successive missiles all but levelled the al-Shifa works with minimal damage to surrounding areas, although one person was killed and ten wounded in the attack.
It is also widely believed that some sort of activity involving chemical weapons was taking place in or around Khartoum during the 1990s, but these suspicions revolved around much easier to produce mustard gas and other facilities in the area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factory   (1053 words)

  
 Middle East Report Online: Black Monday: The Political and Economic Dimensions of Sudan's Urban Riots, by Khalid ...
The Khartoum government, SPLM lieutenants and Garang's widow Rebecca insisted that the crash was accidental and appealed, somewhat in vain, for calm before the disturbances finally fizzled out.
By the terms of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed by the Khartoum regime and the SPLM in Naivasha, Kenya on January 9, 2005, the veteran rebel commander Garang was to be sworn in as first vice president to Sudanese President Gen. Omar al-Bashir exactly six months later.
Khartoum and the South Sudan Government are to split oil revenues 50-50 in the interim period.
www.merip.org /mero/mero080905.html   (2221 words)

  
 Khartoum
Khartoum is the an administrative, economic and commercial centre for the whole of Sudan.
The population of Khartoum is made up of all the peoples living in Sudan, making it relatively one of the least Arabic cities in the northern half of Sudan.
Khartoum has 3 universities, the University of Khartoum, Nilayin University (formerly a branch of Cairo University) and Sudan University of Science and Technology.
www.lexicorient.com /e.o/khartoum.htm   (273 words)

  
 DVD Savant Review: Khartoum
By 1965 the bigscreen roadshow epic was in full swing, and Khartoum had most of the elements considered necessary for success: exotic locales, huge battles, history writ large.
Khartoum is resolutely colonial in its insistence that Gordon is some kind of savior to the Sudanese - in one scene, his main fl lieutenant confuses him with Jesus Christ.
Khartoum is critical of British policy, but it is still told, more or less, from only the British point of view.
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s495khartoum.html   (1412 words)

  
 Khartoum articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is the largest city and chief commercial center of Sudan and part of a tricity metropolitan area (with Khartoum and Khartoum North) that forms the country's industrial and
It is the terminus of a railroad from Khartoum and is the point at which cotton, wheat, livestock, and other goods are transferred to steamers going down the Nile into Egypt.
It is linked by rail with Khartoum and is the chief center of the Al Gezira cotton-growing region.
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/06932.html   (507 words)

  
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Sitting at one of the bus stations in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, she anticipated the five-day walk from Abyei to her village.
In the demolitions and relocations carried out in Khartoum IDP camps and squatter areas on 16 and 17 August, approximately 700 families were moved from the Shikan squatter area in Omdurman to El Fateh 3.
Euan had recently left Khartoum and was waiting for a barge to take him, his wife and their six children back home to Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile State.
www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=49414&SelectRegion=East_Africa&SelectCountry=SUDAN   (1715 words)

  
 khartoum
You are in Khartoum, which means "elephant trunk" in Arabic.
Khartoum is in the center of Sudan, and is a "tri-town" city.
That means it is made of three towns: Khartoum, Omdurman, and Bahri.
www.nilekids.net /khartoum.html   (176 words)

  
 Khartoum - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Khartoum, city, north central Sudan, capital of Sudan and of Khartoum Province, just south of the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile rivers,...
Khartoum North, city, north central Sudan, in Khartoum Province, on the Blue Nile River just above its confluence with the White Nile near Khartoum....
On March 1, Palestinian guerrillas of the extremist Black September organization seized Cleo A. Noel, the U.S. ambassador, George C. Moore, the outgoing chargé d'affaires, and a Belgian diplomat, Guy Eid.
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 Khartoum Resolutions of 1967
This appeared to be the Arab answer to the Israeli call for a negotiated settlement based on the principle of land for peace.
The Khartoum resolutions weakened conciliatory voices in the Israeli government, and legitimized those voice who were calling for annexation of the conquered territories and Jewish settlement in them.
Much later, King Hussein revealed that from the Arab standpoint, the resolutions of the Khartoum conference were intended to be conciliatory, and to allow for informal de facto negotiations and recognitions.
www.mideastweb.org /khartoum.htm   (980 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: Khartoum
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The Arab League meeting at a summit in Khartoum, Sudan have agreed to fund the under financed AU troops currently serving in Darfur.
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 FrontPage magazine.com :: Who Murdered Cleo Noel? by Scott W. Johnson
According to Welsh, who received the radio intercepts at the NSA in Washington, the NSA issued an urgent warning intended for the American Embassy in Khartoum to the State Department on February 28.
On March 1, 1973, a gang of eight operatives of the Black September Organization stormed a party at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum.
The Department received reports from its embassies and missions conveying the results of intelligence inquiries and the Secretary of State (William Rogers) himself promptly disseminated his conclusions regarding responsibility for the operation based on these reports and other intelligence sources.
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 city profile khartoum sudan
__ The contribution of the University of Khartoum as the pioneer of university education in Africa and the Middle East and its involvement in the development of the Sudan can not be underestimated." Learn more about this history.
In 1834 it became the capital of the Sudan, and many explorers from Europe used it as a base for their African expeditions." You will find a good look at the city's history.
The core is colonial, but the greater part of the metropolitan area-- including a huge ring of impoverished squatter settlements--arose only after the British departure in 1955.
www.archaeolink.com /city_study_khartoum_sudan.htm   (302 words)

  
 Khartoum
Khartoum (which means the elephant’s «; trunk ») lays o the last « trunk » of land between the White and Blue Nile before their junction (Moqren) ; it is the capital of Khartoum State, and thje headquarter of the homonymous province.
In Khartoum exists parish of the MELKITE Church which follows the oriental Melkite rite to serve the catholic community of the same rite.
In Khartoum there is a resident Melkite priest since 1907 ; he depends on the Melkite Bishop, H.L. Paul Antaki, residing in Cairo.
www.eglisesoudan.org /english/Khartoum.htm   (1796 words)

  
 Sudan, Khartoum: Khartoum American School
The Khartoum American School (KAS) is an independent, coeducational day school, which offers an educational program from prekindergarten through grade 12 for students of all nationalities.
Organization: The School is governed by a 7-member school board, 6 of whom are elected for 2-year terms by the Khartoum American School Parents' Association and 1 who is appointed by the U.S. Mission to Sudan.
Membership in the Association is automatically conferred on the parents or guardians of children enrolled in the school.
www.state.gov /m/a/os/1343.htm   (457 words)

  
 The National Capital, Khartoum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is located on the western bank of the Blue Nile and forms a huge triangle, with its vertex at the confluence of the two Niles and the base bordering Gezira State some 30km southeastward.
Facing Khartoum from the northeastern bank of the Blue Nile is the town of Khartoum North.
The second church of Sayeda EI Bushara was constructed in Khartoum in 1910.
www.sudan-embassy.co.uk /infobook/khartoum.php   (1165 words)

  
 American Prospect Online - ViewWeb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But in midst of an ongoing genocide in Darfur, and with the rest of the world poised to act with a unified purpose, the Bush administration’s decision to obstruct a Security Council vote on the ICC and Darfur may be sending the wrong message to the worst of Sudan’s war criminals.
Indeed, if we are to judge by the reaction of Khartoum officials to the report, many of them are scared at the prospect of being hauled into court for their actions.
Rather than ordering further bombing raids on defenseless villages, leaders in Khartoum who fear prosecution may instead play down their roles as war criminals; like any criminals about to face justice, they are likely to expend energy hiding their crimes -- not committing more crimes that would require further covering up.
www.prospect.org /web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9160   (1459 words)

  
 CNN.com - U.N. envoy pessimistic on Sudan - Aug 11, 2004
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The United Nations' envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk, is pessimistic the government in Khartoum will be able to meet is commitments to relieve the country's growing humanitarian crisis.
Speaking to media Wednesday in Khartoum, Pronk said a lack of security was holding back the return of around 1 million displaced people to their homes.
Despite claims from Khartoum the situation was improving, Human Rights Watch said the government appeared to be backtracking on the timeline set out by the Security Council resolution.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/africa/08/11/sudan/index.html   (685 words)

  
 Andrew Balfour
However, he restricted his sanitary activities to Khartoum and Khartoum North, continuing to completely ignore the town of Omdurman on the west bank of the White Nile although it fell within the boundaries of Khartoum Province [10].
In the first place, it cannot be ignored that Khartoum is not London and that the conditions of research are essentially different in the two places.
At the same time,it must not be forgotten that almost all the greatest discoveries in tropical medicine have been done on the spot, so to speak, although it is true that many of them required the work of European authorities to interpret their intrinsic importance and their bearings on science and medicine in general.
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 Khartoum (1966)
They call him the Mahdi, and he knows that in order to control Sudan, he must take the city of Khartoum, which sits at the fork in the Nile River, and is therefore of tremendous strategic importance.
Khartoum tells the epic (and true) story of General Gordon's attempts to defend Khartoum and evacuate the resident Egyptians to safety, with no support from his government and nothing more than his own wits and force of will.
Shot in an appropriately sweeping style, Khartoum is an excellent example of the classic Hollywood epics, and brings together two of the more titanic stars of the era in Olivier and Heston.
www.needcoffee.com /html/dvd/khartoum.htm   (627 words)

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