Bridge Name: | El Mek Nimr Bridge |
Crosses: | Blue Nile |
Locale: | Khartoum |
Begin: | 2005 |
Complete: | 2007 |
Length: | 642.5 m |
Mapframe: | no |
Opened in 2007, the El Mek Nimr Bridge links the downtown area of Khartoum, Sudan, with the adjacent city of Khartoum North across the Blue Nile river.[1] It is named after Mek Nimr, a leader of the Ja'alin tribe in northern Sudan, who was famously defeated against the Egyptians.