The Khartoum War Cemetery, maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, holds the graves of around 350 servicemen who died in Sudan during the First and Second World Wars, along with the Khartoum Memorial — a stone obelisk commemorating the dead of the East African campaigns. The cemetery is on the southeast edge of the city centre, behind a low white wall and a gate that is usually open during daylight hours.
It is one of the most carefully kept green spaces in Khartoum. Rows of identical white headstones sit between flowering shrubs and clipped grass, watered by a small irrigation system. The names tell their own story — British, South African, Indian, Sudanese — and the silence after the noise of Sharia Al-Qasr makes it worth the short walk.