Sudanese nationalists saw Egypt’s own interests, not unity, behind its opposition to Sudan irrigation

Evidence

Babikr Bedri provided another example of this alliance when he accused the Egyptians of bad imperialism during a discussion with the future prime minister of Egypt, Husayn Bey Sirrï. Bedri was angry with the Egyptians for their continued protest against British-run irrigation projects for the Sudan and felt this protest showed the superficiality of their sense of unity. In indignation, he raised this point to the Egyptian politician: “But what your Ministers actually said was ‘Irrigation in the Sudan will adversely affect the irrigation of Egypt at the present time.’ Now does that really square with the picture which the Egyptian likes to paint of himself as the older brother caring for his younger, orphaned brother?” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1022

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: This pertained to the irrigation conflict over the Nile between Egypt and Sudan — a concrete colonial-infrastructure clash, but only loosely tied to the three listed articles. Not a strong direct match.
• XREF: Connects to broader Nile water-sharing disputes literature and the ‘hydraulic mission’ in African colonial history.