The affluent neighbourhood hosted Osama bin Laden's house in Khartoum.

[1][2] In 1991, Osama bin Laden purchased a house in the affluent Riyadh neighbourhood of the city and another in Soba.

Following the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, the United States accused bin Laden's al-Qaeda group and, on 20 August, launched cruise missile attacks on the al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum North.

[3] The University of Medical Sciences and Technology (UMST) was built the Riyadh district of Khartoum.

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