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100 years of West Nile

TUESDAY APRIL 15 2014

     

By FELIX W. OKELLO

West Nile is one of the geographical and administrative units in Uganda offering a unique contrast in the social, economic and political set ups.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics projections of demographic trends in Uganda for 2007-2017, the population of West Nile region this year stands at 2,813,800 people, and the district with the highest number is Nebbi, with a total of 537,300 followed by Arua.

The economic sector, most people engage in agriculture. 
The region marks 100 years on April 21 since it became part of Uganda after the Anglo-Belgian Agreement of February 3, 1915 1914.

In accordance with this agreement, the south eastern part of the Mahagi strip was transferred to the Belgian Congo, which provided the town of Mahagi access to Lake Albert.

From its inception, West Nile was a multi-ethnic district consisting four ethnic groups namely; Lugbara, Alur, Madi and Kakwa. The Congo/Uganda boundary splits the Alur and Lugbara tribes while the Sudan/Uganda boundary splits the Kakwa and Madi tribes. Because of this what happens in the DR Congo and the Sudan has a direct bearing on the people of West Nile.

Historical background
The West Nile District was part of the "Lado Enclave" named after the River Port of Lado located in the Southern Sudan. The enclave which consisted of territory which is today Northern Uganda and South Eastern Sudan was part of the Congo Free State until 1910 when it reverted to Anglo-Egyptian control, as agreed in the Anglo-German Treaty of 1890.

According to the Anglo-German Treaty of 1890, Belgian King Leopold's hold on to the territory would lapse at the end of his reign. Another treaty, the Anglo-Congo Agreement signed on August 14, 1894 gave the Lado Enclave to King Leopold II on lease until his death in 1910.

During the first decade of the 20th century the British sought by force to establish total control over southern Sudan and to achieve this end the Sudan-Uganda border was delimited in 1913 and amended in 1914 when Sudan ceded the southern tip of the Lado Enclave (the West Nile District) in return for a stretch of territory of Northern Uganda which included Gondokoro.

Then, when the British government declared a protectorate over Uganda in June 1894, it excluded the Lado Enclave and the Mahagi strip which were leased to King Leopold II of Belgium. An Anglo-Belgian Agreement of May 14, 1910 terminated the lease and the administration of the Lado Enclave was transferred to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on June 16, 1910.

In 1912 and 1913 a joint Anglo-Belgian Commission mapped and drew the Belgian Congo/Uganda Protectorate boundary from Lake Albert north-eastward to the Congo/Nile watershed.

In 1913 a Sudanese/Uganda Commission delimited a common boundary on the ground between Bahr al Jabal and the Belgian Congo tripoint, near the present Ariwara.

The new boundaries were officially promulgated on April 21, 1914 by the British government.