The Archive · 1899

The Distribution of Tile Soudan

An Anglo-French agreement hes been signed at London forming a supplement to the Niger Convention. Great Britain retains the Bahr-el-Ghazal and Darfur (in the Eastern Soudan), France retains Wadai and Bagirmi (in the Western Soudan) and the. territory, east and north of Lake Chad.

The signatories to the agreement mutually concede equality of commercial treatment in the region bounded by the Nile (on the East), Lake Chad (on the: West), and the fifth and fifteenth parallels of north latitude (on the South and North, respectively') and. by that, means France, obtains weees to the Nile.

_London, 24th-March,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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