Egypt financed the Sudan’s reconquest yet was shut out of its economic benefits

Evidence

The Wafd delegation argued that Egypt, even more than Great Britain, had gained the right of conquest in the Sudan during 1899 by the sheer numbers of Egyptian soldiers who had fought under General Kitchener. In addition to suffering casualties in the war, Egypt had spent millions of pounds on the Sudan since the reconquest. Despite that support, Egyptian interests were now threatened by the economic schemes being adopted by the Sudan government, such as the irrigation development project for the Gezira district, and the cotton plantations encouraged in the Sudan by the British. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 828