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With a population of 6,344,348, Khartoum's metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. Khartoum is located at the confluence of the White Nile – flowing north from Lake Victoria – and the Blue Nile, flowing west from Lake Tana in Ethiopia.
Apr 11, 2024 · Tensions between the two military forces reached boiling point in Khartoum on April 15 last year, when both forces sent armoured vehicles into the streets and they opened fire on each other.
Jun 21, 2024 · Khartoum is a city and the executive capital of Sudan, just south of the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers. It has bridge connections with its sister towns, Khartoum North and Omdurman, with which it forms Sudan’s largest conurbation.
Dec 10, 2023 · Famine looms in Sudan as civil war survivors tell of killings and rapes. BBC teams report from the devastated capital and hear accounts of rapes and street executions from refugees. Africa. 10 Dec...
Jun 6, 2024 · The capital, Khartoum, has been transformed into a charred battleground of bullet-scarred buildings and bodies buried in shallow graves.
Khartoum (الخرطوم al-Kharṭūm), located at the confluence point of the White Nile and the Blue Nile, is the capital of Sudan and of Khartoum State. Although the region has had a history that included the Kushite , Meroitic, Alodic, and Sennar Kingdoms, as well as Christian and Islamic religious influence, the city of Khartoum was not ...
Apr 19, 2023 · Thousands of civilians have fled the capital Khartoum as foreign nations prepare evacuation missions.
Khartoum or Khartum (/ k ɑːr ˈ t uː m / kar-TOOM; Arabic: الخرطوم, romanized: Al-Khurṭūm) is the capital city of Sudan. It is also Sudan's largest city. It is where the Blue Nile and main Nile come together. Its name means "elephant tusk". Two other cities nearby are Omdurman and Khartoum North.
Apr 16, 2023 · Hamid Khalafallah, a researcher and policy analyst at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy in Khartoum, told the BBC that the Sudanese military appeared to be bombing targets within the...
Apr 19, 2023 · Smoke billows over the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Thousands of civilians have fled Sudan's capital and foreign nations are trying to evacuate their citizens, amid a fifth day of fierce fighting...
