A major colonial incident has meanwhile occurred…

1888 CE to 1899 CE

A major colonial incident has meanwhile occurred in Southern Sudan.

The French, in a race with the British to claim territory in Cen­tral Africa, send an expeditionary force across Southern Sudan, arriving on the Nile at Fashoda, just north of modern Malakal, in July 1898 and claiming the Upper Nile region for France.

Following defeat of the Mahdi's army, Kitchener and his Anglo-Egyptian force march south along the Nile and confront  the French, provoking a major diplo­matic and military crisis.

In the negotiations that follow, the French decided that considerations in Europe outweigh those in Sudan and withdraw westward, leaving Britain in control of the Upper Nile basin.

From 1898, the United Kingdom and Egypt administer all of present-day Sudan as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, but northern and southern Sudan are administered as separate provinces of the condominium.

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Malakal A`ali an-Nil South Sudan View →

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Abdullah Ibn-Mohammed Al-Khalifa View → Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener View → Muhammad Ahmad View → Tewfik Pasha View → Yohannes IV View →

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Nubians View → Arab people View → Beja people View → Ja'alin tribe View → Christians, Monophysite View → Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria View → Christianity, Chalcedonian View → Islam View → Muslims, Sunni View → Funj people View → Fur people (Nilo-Saharan tribe) View → Ottoman Empire View → Beja people View → Sennar, Funj Sultanate of View → Baggara View → Shaigiya View → Egypt, (Ottoman) Viceroyalty of View → Sudan, Turco-Egyptian View → Belgium, Kingdom of View → Egypt, Khedivate of View → Italy, Kingdom of View → France (French republic); the Third Republic View → Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of View →

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Sudan: Famine of 1888 View → British Reconquest of Sudan View → Sudanese War of 1896-99 View →

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