Sudan was part of the main shipping route to the East. Britain needed to control the Suez Canal.
British and French forces almost went to war at Fashoda in the Sudan in 1898. The French were trying to gain control of the upper Nile to keep Britain out of Sudan.
Britain?
1899
The colonial rulers of South Sudan was Great Britain.
Great Britain was the colonial ruler of South Sudan.
Yes, but indirectly. Sudan was part of the Khedivite Sultanate in Egypt which Britain ruled via a protectorate as opposed to a colony.
1899
Britain
there was lots of gold scattered around Africa and Africans grow sugarcane which is sugar. also they could get to India easier that way
Access to oil.
Usually water is the best control substance for the Sudan IV test.