Sudan Omdurman May-June 1985. This picture scanned in 2018 Omdurman is the second largest city in Sudan and Khartoum State, lying on the western banks of the River Nile, opposite the capital, Khartoum. After the siege of Khartoum the city, now the location of the tomb of the Mahdi, grew rapidly. However, in the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 , Lord Kitchener decisively defeated the Mahdist forces and killed the Khalifa, ensuring British control over the Sudan

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Photo credit: © BRIAN HARRIS / Alamy / Afripics
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