El Mek Nimr Bridge

The El Mek Nimr Bridge is a bridge that links the downtown area of Khartoum, Sudan, with the adjacent city of Khartoum North across the Blue Nile river.^[1] It opened in 2007, and was named after Mek Nimr, a leader of the Ja'alin tribe in northern Sudan, who infamously killed the son of Muhammad Ali Pasha, Ismail, and his cortege when they invaded Sudan from Egypt in 1822.

El Mek Nimr Bridge
El Mek Nimr Bridge in Khartoum
Coordinates	15°36′50″N 32°31′51″E
Crosses	Blue Nile
Locale	Khartoum
Characteristics
Total length	642.5 m
History
Construction start	2005
Construction end	2007