Baḥr al-Ghazāl

…a separate administration for the Baḥr al-Ghazāl (now in the present-day country of South Sudan). In 1877 Emin Paşa (a German administrator) became governor of the equatorial provinces and made his headquarters at Lado, whence he was driven in 1885 by Mahdists from the Sudan. He then removed southward to…

…the vast plains of the Baḥr al-Ghazāl (now in South Sudan), slave merchants had established enormous empires with stations garrisoned by slave soldiers. From these stations the long lines of human chattels were sent overland through Darfur and Kordofan to the slave markets of the northern Sudan, Egypt, and Arabia.…