In 1884 a Sudanese boatman, turned religious seer, involved the British Empire in a sticky little ... into a frenzied jihad (holy war) against the Sudan’s Egyptian rulers. Since Egypt was ...

With artefacts on loan from the British Museum, this modest show reminds us of the astonishing heritage of a country now ...

Sarra Eljak and her husband Mustafa Abbas (pictured with three of their children) had gone to Sudan to visit family A British family who were stranded in Sudan have managed to return to the UK but ...

This weapon could fire hundreds of bullets a minute and it played a major part in a number of British victories in Africa. These included: Matabeleland in 1893-4. The Sudan in 1898. The Aro War in ...