Sanu’a linked the Mahdi revolt to Egyptian fellah suffering over Nile waters

Evidence

The fallah stones him in the name of “the waters of the Nile that you have deprived me of, killing me and my land off with thirst, and not just for that but also for bringing the red demons here to destroy my property,” “red demons” being a common Sanü`a epithet for the British. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 471

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Ties to the grafting/trees infrastructure article obliquely — the Nile waters as contested infrastructure; more directly relevant to colonial control of the Nile as a geopolitical weapon.
• XREF: Water as geopolitical weapon connects to contemporary Nile Basin politics (GERD dam disputes) — a colonial legacy still live.