Lado Enclave

The Lado Enclave was the Congo Free State owned enclave, which lay on the west bank of the upper Nile in an area that is now part of South Sudan and Uganda. It existed from 1894 until 1910.

The enclave had an area of ​​40,000 km ² and a population of about 250,000. The capital was Lado.

Development

Lado was part of Equatoria until 1894, when Britain leased the area to King Leopold II of Belgium, so that the Congo Free State was given access to Rejaf and thus to the navigable Nile. In turn, Belgium gave a strip of land in eastern Congo, the United Kingdom needed for the planned construction of the railway line from Cape Town to Cairo.

1910 the Lado Enclave part of the Anglo -Egyptian Sudan, before the southern half of 1912 ceded to Uganda.

Kongo-Freistaat/Belgisch-Kongo | Lado Enclave ( leasehold ) | Ruanda- Urundi | Santo Tomás de Castilla | Villaguay

  • Belgian colonial history (Africa)
  • History ( Uganda)
  • History ( Southern Sudan )
  • Enclave
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