Sudan Treaty

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The Sudan Treaty , also known as the Niger Convention , was an agreement that was ratified by Great Britain and France on March 21, 1899 . It settled the tensions that had openly arisen between the two countries during the Faschoda crisis . Both countries wanted a continuous colonial belt through Africa : France from west to east, England from north to south. The treaty is in the context of the race to colonize Africa .

history

In South Sudan , both colonial troops met in Faschoda (now Kodok ) during the Faschoda crisis. In the treaty, the border between French Equatorial Africa , the western part of the Sudan belt and the now British-occupied Sudan was finally determined. The British kept the areas from the Nile to the Congo . This cleared the way for the rapprochement between the two states, which led to the formation of the Entente cordiale . The Convention between Great Britain and France for the Delimitation of their respective Possessions to the West of the Niger, and of their respective Possessions and Spheres of Influence to the East of that River (Niger Convention) was concluded on June 14, 1898 in Paris . It was ratified on March 21, 1899.

literature

  • Marc Michel: La Mission Marchand. 1895-1899 . (= Le monde d'outre-mer passé et présent. Série 1, Études 36). Mouton, Paris et al. 1972.
  • Paul Webster: Fachoda. La bataille pour le Nile . Édition du Félin, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-86645-313-1 .
  • Hillas Smith: The Unknown Frenchman. The Story of Marchand and Fashoda . Book Guild, Lewes 2001, ISBN 1-85776-537-0 .
  • GN Uzoigwe: European partition and conquest of Africa: an overview. In: A. Adu Boahen (Ed.): General History of Africa. Vol. VII: Africa under Colonial Domination 1880–1935 . UNESCO , Paris 2000, ISBN 92-3-101713-6 , pp. 19–44, p. 34. (unesdoc.unesco.org)