21 January 2011 Staying at Blue Nile Sailing Club, Khartoum, Sudan The Sudanese couple we met in Addis Ababa offered to take us this morning to the Magdi's mausoleum in the old part of Khartoum called Omdurman. He was the man who fought the English commander Genl Gordon of the occupying forces in the late 1800's and eventually beat the English with very few weapons apart from shear pride not to be ruled by another country. He, his son and his two grandsons are ...

21 January 2011 Staying at Blue Nile Sailing Club, Khartoum, Sudan The Sudanese couple we met in Addis Ababa offered to take us this morning to the Magdi's mausoleum in the old part of Khartoum called Omdurman. He was the man who fought the English commander Genl Gordon of the occupying forces in the late 1800's and eventually beat the English with very few weapons apart from shear pride not to be ruled by another country. He, his son and his two grandsons are ...