Unfortunately, Isma'il's Southern policy lacks consistency.In 1871…
1876 CE to 1887 CE
In 1871 he named a notorious Arab slave trader, Rahina Mansur al-Zubayr, as governor of the newly created province of Bahr al-Ghazal.
Al-Zubayr had used his army to pacify the province and to eliminate his competition in the slave trade.
In 1874 he had invaded Darfur, then offered the region as a province to the khedive.
Later that year, al-Zubayr had defied Cairo when the khedive attempted to relieve him of his post and had defeated an Egyptian force sent to oust him.
Gordon, after he becomes Sudan's governor-general, ended al-Zubayr's slave trading, disbands his army, and sends him back to Cairo.
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