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Khedive of Egypt and Sudan on the streets of Cairo, Egypt

Khedive of Egypt and Sudan on the streets of Cairo, Egypt

Abbas Helmy II, the last Khedive of Egypt and the Sudan

In 1863 Mexico had placed a moratorium on it’s interest payments to France, Spain and the UK. 

Napoleon III chose to invade Mexico, and started a campaign under Maximillian to create a french Colony. His troops fell Ill  from the tropical diseases, so he petitioned the Ismail Pasha the Khedive of Egypt, for Nubian Soldiers from the “Egyptian Army” with the hopes they would endure the climate and diseases. 

The Khedive, who wanted to associate Egypt more with Europe than with Africa responded promptly to this request, 453 enslaved Sudanese where ferried on the Nile to Alexandria

They went on to win tactical battles for the french and were awarded medals and high praise at a parade in Paris, for their outstanding contribution to a war, that Napoleon III eventually withdrew from. 

The surviving 350 returned to Egypt as decorated soldiers, who went on to change history on the continent.  

Like with the case of Slave abolitionist Samuel White Baker’s armed bodyguards, named “the 40 Thieves”, these very same Sudanese troops that had returned from Mexico to Sudan, were assigned to protect Baker, by the new Khedive.

Controversy in Egypt after distortion of statue of Khedive Ismael

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                                              Asmaa Waguih

Egypt

There was a controversy in Egypt, after the statue of Khedive Ismael in the Ismailia province was recently defiled by the province.

The Egyptian Minister of Culture, Inas Abdalayem, decided to form a committee composed of experts from the plastic arts and the national…