Acropole Hotel
| Acropole Hotel | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Address | Zubeir Pascha Street |
| Town or city | Khartoum |
| Country | Sudan |
| Website | |
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acropolekhartoum | |
The Acropole is the oldest existing hotel in Khartoum, founded in 1952.[1] It is run by the Greek Pagoulatos family - brothers Thanasis, George, and Mike. An added attraction is the OHM electronics shop next door, which is owned by the brother of Sheikh Musa Hilal, the tribal leader of Darfur's notorious Janjaweed. Several journalists and members of human rights organizations have managed to interview Hilal in that shop. [2]
When notorious filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's helicopter crashed in the Nuba mountains, the Pagoulatos brothers found her a Sudan Airways captain and plane to rescue her and the crew, and had an ambulance waiting at the airport. During the famine, when provisions were as scarce as rain, the Pagoulatos family and their Sudanese network scrounged up goods for Oxfam and Save the Children to get to the camps.[2]
In May 1988, the hotel was targeted in a terrorist assault, along with the Sudan Club, which killed 7 or 8, and injured 21.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Helsen, Marc (23 November 2010). Onder het zuiderkruis: Onder het Zuiderkruis (in Dutch). Lannoo Meulenhoff - Belgium. p. 83. ISBN 978-90-209-9361-5.
- 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-08. Retrieved 2007-06-02. Bidoun online magazine
- ↑ Bidwell, Robin Leonard (1998). Dictionary of Modern Arab History: An A to Z of Over 2,000 Entries from 1798 to the Present Day. Routledge. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-7103-0505-3.
- ↑ Terrorist Group Profiles. DIANE Publishing. 1 August 1989. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-56806-864-0.
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Coordinates: 15°36′18″N 32°31′46″E / 15.6050°N 32.5294°E