Omdurman
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Sep 12, 2026
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
And so, as a result, Ahmed's family, which included his heavily pregnant mother, moved south to the Sudanese heartland.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
They settled in the town of Qarari, a settlement situated on the west bank of the Nile, south of Omdurman, that was less than a day's journey from Khartoum.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
En route to their new home, though, Ahmed's father died from a short illness, and from then on, Ahmed's two older brothers died.
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Juan NaulaNARRATOR
Having arrived in Khartoum on the 18th of February 1884 to much fanfare, one of Gordon's first measures to shore up local support was to permit the owning and selling of slaves, a practical concession that shocked observers back in Britain who knew the general only as an implacable opponent of the slave trade.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
Elsewhere, Gordon assisted with the evacuation of Europeans and Egyptian officials from the city and revamped the local administration with senior officials hand-picked for a variety of logistical, judiciary, and administrative jobs, while the defensive strategy of Khartoum and the roles its 9,000 defenders would take during the siege were also worked out.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
The siege of Khartoum officially started on the 13th of March 1884, when Ansar fighters besieged the government fort at Omdurman and engaged the government at Halfaya, a few miles downstream from Khartoum, to cut off the river route to Berbe, offensives which led to the retreat and surrender of government forces.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
On the 16th of March, failure befell the defenders again after the betrayal of two of Gordon's senior officers, General Hassan Ibrahim Shalali and General Saeed Hussein al-Jimabi, who purposefully commanded their men to stop firing during the attempted recapture of Halfaya, crimes for which they were promptly tried and shot by court-martials.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Then a man struck in from the Sudan, far and far to the south, with a story of a discomposed judge and a much too collected prisoner.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
To the great bazaars of Omdurman, where all things are sold, came a young man from the uttermost deserts of somewhere or other, and heard a gramophone.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Life was of no value to him till he had bought the creature.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
He took it back to his village, and at twilight set it going among his ravished friends.
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Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Thirty years ago, young English officers in India lied and intrigued furiously that they might be attached to expeditions whose bases were sometimes in Suakim, sometimes quite in the desert air, but all of whose deeds are now quite forgotten.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Occasionally the dragoman, waving a smooth hand east or southeasterly, will speak of some fight.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Then everyone murmurs, oh yes, that was Gordon, of course, or was that before or after Omdurman? But the river is much more precise.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
As the boat quarters the falling stream like a puzzled hound, all the old names spurt up again under the paddle wheels.
Ray ClareNARRATOR
Of these, the mightiest in modern times were the man whose name was Ahmed, and whose more famous title was the Mahdi, and his more ferocious successor, Abdullahi, who was generally known as the Caliphah.
Ray ClareNARRATOR
these great fanatics or great creators of fanaticism succeeded in making a militarism almost as famous and formidable as that of the turkish empire on whose frontiers it hovered and in spreading a reign of terror such as can seldom be organised except by civilisation With Napoleonic suddenness and success, the modest hordes had fallen on the army of Hicks Pasha when it left its camp at Omdurman, on the Nile opposite Khartoum, and had cut it to pieces in a fashion incredible.
Ray ClareNARRATOR
They had established at Omdurman their holy city, the Rome of their nomadic Roman Empire.
Ray ClareNARRATOR
Towards that terrible place many adventurous men like poor Hicks had gone and were destined to go.
Ray ClareNARRATOR
The sands that encircled it were like that entrance to the lion's cavern in the fable towards which many footprints pointed, and from which none returned.
AlistairNARRATOR
It had taken him more than two years and he was still in the northern part of the Sudan, fighting dervishes.
AlistairNARRATOR
Not until September 1898 did he win the decisive victory of Omdurman, in which he slew 20,000 dervishes.
AlistairNARRATOR
Entering Khartoum, where Gordon had been killed, he avenged the events of 1886 by scattering the Mahdi's ashes.
AlistairNARRATOR
When he learned that a French expedition had taken possession of the Nile 500 miles farther south, Kitchener took part of his army and made haste to Fashoda to find Marchand and his tricolor.
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AlistairNARRATOR
The Boers, for their part, angered the miners by excluding them from political rights, by levying heavy tariff duties on food and other supplies, by establishing dynamite and railway monopolies, which interfered with the miners' business.
AlistairNARRATOR
Furthermore, mine owners like Rhodes and Rudd needed native labor and believed that the natives should be forced to work by means of taxation or otherwise.
AlistairNARRATOR
As Rudd said, "If under the cry of civilization we in Egypt lately mowed down ten or twenty thousand dervishes with maxims," he was referring to the Battle of Omdurman, "surely it cannot be considered a hardship to compel the natives in South Africa to give three months in the year to do a little honest work." But the Boer government interfered with the importation of native labor.
AlistairNARRATOR
John Hays Hammond, a well-known American engineer associated with Rhodes, estimated that good government would mean a saving of six shillings per ton on gold ore production costs, and that would mean an increase of about twelve million dollars a year in dividends.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Then a man struck in from the Sudan, far and far to the south, with a story of a discomposed judge and a much too collected prisoner.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
To the great bazaars of Omdurman, where all things are sold, came a young man from the uttermost deserts of somewhere or other, and heard a gramophone.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Life was of no value to him till he had bought the creature.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
He took it back to his village, and at twilight set it going among his ravished friends.
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Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Thirty years ago, young English officers in India lied and intrigued furiously that they might be attached to expeditions whose bases were sometimes in Suakim, sometimes quite in the desert air, but all of whose deeds are now quite forgotten.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Occasionally, the dragoman, waving a smooth hand east or southeasterly, will speak of some fight.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Then everyone murmurs, oh yes, that was Gordon, of course, or was that before or after Omdurman? But the river is much more precise.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
As the boat quarters the falling stream like a puzzled hound, all the old names spurt up again under the paddle wheels.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Then a man struck in from the Sudan, far and far to the south, with a story of a discomposed judge and a much too collected prisoner.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
To the great bazaars of Omdurman, where all things are sold, came a young man from the uttermost deserts of somewhere or other, and heard a gramophone.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Life was of no value to him till he had bought the creature.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
He took it back to his village, and at twilight set it going among his ravished friends.
1 HR 31 MINS LATER
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Occasionally, the dragoman, waving a smooth hand east or southeasterly, will speak of some fight.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Then everyone murmurs, Oh yes, that was Gordon, of course.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Or, Was that before or after Omdurman? But the river is much more precise.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
As the boat quarters the falling stream like a puzzled hound, all the old names spurt up again under the paddle wheels.
Shayna LewisGUEST
But what I witnessed is that the RSF had moved through the facility and shot through every single pediatric ventilator within the critical care unit.
Shayna LewisGUEST
I then traveled to Omdurman in the west-
Charles GitongaHOST
Mm-hmm.
Shayna LewisGUEST
Where I met Amina and her mother.
Sundus AyyubGUEST
for the page because we how we start we start by saying uh also also there was a photographer with with me uh thousand He used to go around Khartoum and take photos.
Sundus AyyubGUEST
He is from Omdurman.
Sundus AyyubGUEST
It's one of the oldest cities in Khartoum.
Sundus AyyubGUEST
And there is, you know, the local market.
Konstantin KisinHOST
Mm.
Robert TombsGUEST
And yet we get terribly upset, which, which may be, which may be justified in certain cases, yet we get terribly upset when we talk, when, uh, General Kitchener defeats the, the, uh, the Mahdists at Omdurman.
Robert TombsGUEST
We think, gosh, this was terrible slaughter.
Robert TombsGUEST
And yet we, we, we're happy to go and bomb- we bombed ISIS.
Khalid Mohamed ElbagirGUEST
So we started with small kitchens.
Khalid Mohamed ElbagirGUEST
In Omdurman, we had, like, 18 kitchen feeding more than 100,000 per day.
Paul HenleyHOST
There are still security checkpoints.
Paul HenleyHOST
There's still an army presence in the capital, isn't there?
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