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The British, meanwhile, were engaged in the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan, moving upriver from Egypt. On 18 September a flotilla of five British gunboats arrived at the isolated Fashoda fort. They carried 1,500 British, Egyptian and Sudanese soldiers, led by Sir Herbert Kitchener and including Lieutenant-Colonel Horace Smith-Dorrien. [7]
Britain fought a war with Mahdist Sudan in the Mahdist War from 1881 until November 1899. Between 1899 and the country's independence in 1956, Sudan (then known as "Anglo-Egyptian Sudan") was an Anglo-Egyptian condominium. Although New Year's Day 1956 marked Sudan's independence, the British actually transferred power in 1954. [1]
January 7, 2011 C.E. — ongoing South Sudan internal conflict May 19, 2011 — 2020 Sudan–SRF conflict March 26, 2012 C.E. — September 26, 2012 C.E. Sudan–South Sudan Border War
Leaders from Sudan’s seven neighboring countries agreed on Thursday in Cairo to a new Egyptian-led initiative seeking to resolve the deepening conflict in the African country. The meeting ...
CAIRO, Egypt — When fighting first broke out in Sudan’s capital, he only had $800 in his bank account.. As the sole provider for his family of five, high school teacher Shaheen al-Sharif knew ...
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The Philippine Vice Consul to Egypt, Bojer Capati, was injured after the car he was travelling in with Philippine Ambassador to Egypt Ezzedin Tago figured in an accident on their way to the Sudanese border to oversee repatriation efforts. [50] The embassy in Cairo has jurisdiction over Filipinos in Sudan as there is no Philippine Embassy in ...
Egypt had hoped for a united Sudan because South Sudan will be another state with which it might have to negotiate water rights. [14] In 2010 there was a sharp division between seven of the riparian states, which reached their own agreement, and opposition to that agreement by Egypt and Sudan. [14]