Equatoria
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Equatoria is the southernmost region of South Sudan, along the upper reaches of the White Nile and the border between South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Juba, the na
Lopit people in Eastern Equatoria
Equatoria Corps
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition
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The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1887 to 1889 was one of the last major European expeditions into the interior of Africa in the nineteenth century. Led by Henry Morton Stanley, its goal was ostensi
Equatoria
…communications. However, Emin Pasha managed to request assistance from Britain via Buganda. The British sent the explorer Henry Morton Stanley and who led a relief expedition, called the "Advance," in February 1887 to rescue Emin. The Advance navigated up the Congo River and then through the Ituri Forest, one of the most…
Henry Morton Stanley with the officers of the Advance Column, Cairo, 1890. From the left: Dr. Thomas Heazle Parke, Robert Henry Nelson, Henry Morton Stanley, William Grant Stairs, and Arthur Jephson.
Emin Pasha, German-born Egyptian governor of Equatoria
The steel boat Advance as depicted in In Darkest Africa by H.M. Stanley
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