The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium masked British control behind Egyptian financing.

Evidence

This controversy arose as the Mahdist state itself weakened and then fell to the British-led Egyptian armies in 1898. Not long after General Herbert Kitchener liberated hundreds of prisoners of the Mahdï, including Fawzï Pasha, the Sudan was named the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, a unique designation under which a British administrator would govern the Sudan and the Egyptian treasury would finance the ter- ritory. The British and Egyptian flags flew side-by-side over administrative buildings in Khartoum, but it was clear to most that the so-called condo- minium paid only sanctimonious attention to Egyptian claims to the Sudan. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 641

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• DEFINE: Clarifies the Condominium arrangement: a British administrator governs while Egypt foots the bill.
• XREF: A concrete instance of the ‘indirect rule’ pattern in comparative colonial Africa, contrasting with direct Egyptian administration.

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