His life, which is the region extending west of the Nile from the town of Mahajiri in the south on Lake Albert to longitude 30° East, and to longitude 30° East and the watershed between the Nile and the Sukkono to the west (1).

Following the death of King Leopold II, the region was returned to Sudan in 1910, but not in its entirety. Britain carved out the southern part of Lado in 1914 and annexed it to British possessions in Uganda in exchange for the incorporation of the centers of Fandikru and Menyuoth into Sudan.

The borders of Southern Sudan began to take their current shape in late 1913 and early 1914, where the southern part of Lado, where the homelands of the Maladi and Ojibari are located, was annexed to Uganda, while the lands of the Bari and Lado were annexed to Sudan because the right bank of the river up to latitude 5° was administered from Uganda with its centers in Fandikru and Timoli. The Ugandan government also demanded in 1930 that the border line from Timoli follow the river itself instead of the foothills west of the river (2).

The southern borders of Sudan are not considered anthropological borders. Although they follow the watershed between the Nile and the Sukkono west of the Nile, they divide tribes between Sudan and its neighbors, as the terrain of the fertile region encourages settlement more than the areas that are flooded with water and dispersed for part of the year.

It is correct to mention, quoting Boggs, that a missionary wanted to know the location of the mission and its properties, and therefore before the demarcation of the borders, when the agreed border line between (1) See Atlas of the Sudanese Empire by Dr. Magd Sabry. (2) Gleichen, Ibid., P. 285. (3) Nalder, L.F. Equatorial Province Handbook, 1936 PP. 26-42