In 1884 a Sudanese boatman, turned religious seer, involved the British Empire in a sticky little war. Mohamed Ahmed, who had declared himself the Mahdi, the long-awaited messiah of Islamic tradition, ...

To many Sudanese Moslems, Mohammed Ahmed was more than a national hero. He was El Mahdi—the Messiah—legendary descendant of the Prophet and leader of the Whirling Dervishes, who massacred the British ...

Paris — The Sudanese opposition forces in the French capital last week agreed on a 'silent intifada', says the head of the National Umma Party (NUP). According to NUP president El Sadig El Mahdi ...

SAYED SADIQ EL MAHDI, who became Prime Minister of the Sudan Republic last July at the age of thirty, is the great-grandson of the famous nineteenth-century Sudanese nationalist known to history as ...