Soudan and Khartoum Streets commemorated General Gordon’s campaign against the Dervishes. "Strange sounding names from Far Away Places" by Michael McRitchie in Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday 14 May 1974.
This name retains a historical spelling of what is now Sudan. Soudan Street is part of a small group of streets off Donegall Road which commemorate British colonial expeditions and rule in Egypt and Sudan, including Nubia Street, Kitchener Street, Kitchener Drive and Meridi Street. Khartoum Street was near Bridge End in East Belfast and no longer exists.
"On application of the owners, two new Streets on property situated of Donegall Road were named “Kitchener Street” and “Soudan Street”, and three new streets on property situated off Agincourt Avenue were named “Collingwood Avenue”, “Cadogan Street” and “Curzon Street”. The Town Improvement Committee as reported in the Northern Whig, October 13, 1898.