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19 September 1898
Fashoda incident
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France and Britain are rivals in central and west Africa (see Further
Afield). Both nations are securing territory on the rivers Niger
and Nile, in order to control trade routes. Britain has the advantage
as it controls Egypt. At Fashoda in Sudan on the upper Nile in September
1898, British forces under Kitchener clash with French troops. The French
are outnumbered but hold their ground, and the two sides have a stand-off
while French and British politicians wrangle over who controls which
part of central and west Africa.
The French finally withdraw on 4 November. Signed on 21 March 1899,
the Anglo-French Convention gives Britain control of the Nile, while
land west of the watershed between the rivers Nile and Congo is under
French control.
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