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UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office: Ros Marsden, our ambassador in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, shows us the gunboat which General Kitchener used to bombard Omdurman in 1898.

Read more about Sudan:
http://ukinsudan.fco.gov.uk/en/

Watch an interview with Ros Marsden below:

Agreement has been reached by the Melik Society and National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) to set up the Nile Foundation for the purpose of restoring the Gunboat MELIK and the Armed Steamer BORDEIN and giving them new roles to attract visitors to the Sudan. NCAM has been responsible for Sudan’s extensive heritage since Independence in 1956.