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Fashoda Incident

Anglo-French dispute, Egyptian Sudan
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Date:
September 18, 1898
Location:
Sudan
Participants:
France
United Kingdom

Fashoda Incident, (September 18, 1898), the climax, at Fashoda, Egyptian Sudan (now Kodok, South Sudan), of a series of territorial disputes in Africa between Great Britain and France. The disputes arose from the common desire of each country to link up its disparate colonial possessions in Africa. Great Britain’s aim was to link Uganda to Egypt via a railway from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo, while France, by pushing eastward from the west coast, hoped to extend its dominion across Central Africa and the Sudan. In order to fulfill France’s expansionist aspirations, the French foreign minister, Gabriel Hanotaux, ...(100 of 365 words)

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