Oh, the Almighty. Please unite us for the good of our nation (Sudan)
Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker Abdalla, a poet from Sudan, a war-ravaged African country, shares his fresh poem
Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker is a TEFL Teacher, Poet, Journalist, Activist, and Freelance Interpreter/ Translator from Umbda Omdurman – Sudan. He also has been working as a debate leader discussing various topics in many English Institutes, Centers, Academies and Schools. He can be reached at: americanslang64@gmail.com
Free-Wheeling Khartoum
It was trundling through newly captured areas, trapping militia struggler, some of whom were laminated.
One Defeasance, One Nation
Capturing of the metropolis marked a momentous shift in Africa’s sizeable war, which has brought decimations, deprivation, and sweeping wreckage in its existence.
One cavalry! One folk!
In the cockcrow showed, hundreds were over passing in the city at halfway point, strolled over the Blue Nile early without a ruckus.
One Militant, One Nation
Your dropping was one of the stupendous cities on the African continent, dealt a crushing blow to the ambitions of supplying with powerful weapons since the day one of the war.
One Militant, One Nation
You were a glorious city nestled along the banks of the River Nile, alive with the warmth of its citizens and the dynamic stamina united dudes from every corner of far-flung and like night and day.
One Defeasance, One Nation
In a nearby uptown county, a neck of the woods whooped and cheered as they ran up to the victory.
One Warrior, One Nation
We’ve had lavish of the Explorations. We’ve had adequate mugging. Not only that but we were dishonest even forty winks at torturing some of the worst misconducts under the hugging of civil battle among all betrayers.
One warrior, one Nation
Oh, the Almighty. Please unite us for the good of our nation (Sudan)
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The poem written on Wednesday, 26th of March 2025, portrays Khartoum, located at the confluence of the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria and the Blue Nile, flowing west from Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Divided by these two parts of the Nile, the Khartoum metropolitan area is a tripartite metropolis consisting of Khartoum proper and linked by bridges to Khartoum North and Omdurman to the west. The place where the two Niles meet is known as al-Mogran.
Khartoum was founded in 1821 by Muhammad Ali Pasha, north of the ancient city of Soba. In 1882, the British Empire took control of the Egyptian government, leaving the administration of Sudan in the hands of the Egyptians. At the outbreak of the Mahdist War, the British attempted to evacuate Anglo-Egyptian garrisons from Sudan but the Siege of Khartoum in 1884 resulted in the capture of the city by Mahdist forces and a massacre of the defending Anglo-Egyptian garrison. In 1898, it was reoccupied by British forces and was the seat of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan’s government until 1956.
In 1956, the city was designated as the capital of an independent Sudan. Three hostages were killed during the attack on the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum in 1973.
In 2008, the Justice and Equality Movement engaged in combat in the city with the Sudanese Armed Forces as part of the War in Darfur. The Khartoum massacre occurred in 2019 during the Sudanese Revolution. Between 2023 and 2025, the city saw extensive combat during the civil war involving the armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), affecting Khartoum International Airport and other critical sites.
Khartoum is an economic and trade Centre in North Africa, with rail lines from Port Sudan and El-Obeid. It is served by Khartoum International Airport with the New Khartoum International Airport under construction. Several national and cultural institutions are in Khartoum and its metropolitan area, including the National Museum of Sudan, the Khalifa House Museum, the University of Khartoum, and the Sudan University of Science and Technology.
