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==British rule==
On 10 June 1910, following Leopold’s death, the district officially became a province of the [[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]], with British Army veteran Captain [[Chauncey Hugh Stigand]] appointed administrator.<ref>Hill, p. 346.</ref> In 1912 the southern half of the Lado Enclave was ceded to [[Uganda]], then a British protectorate.<ref>Ascherson, N. ''The King Incorporated: Leopold II in the Age of Trusts'', Granta Books, 2001. ISBN 1-86207-290-6.</ref> However, in reality, following Leopold's death and the susbsequent withdrawal of Belgian troops, British authorities neglected to administer the area, leaving the enclave to become a "no man's land".<ref name=geo>"Review of 'Big Game Hunting in Central Africa", ''The Geographical Journal'', vol. 77, no. 3, March 1931, p. 276.</ref> Ivory hunters moved in and shot almost all of an estimated herd of 2000 elephants resident in the enclave, netting the hunters large profits.<ref name=geo/>
In 1912, renowned naturalist Dr [[Edgar Alexander Mearns]] travelled through the Enclave as part of his expedition through eastern Africa searching for new fauna, and reported a new subspecies of [[Temminck's courser]] within the Enclave.<ref>"Recent Literature", ''The Auk'', vol. 33, no. 1. (January 1916), American Ornithologists' Union. p. 89.</ref>
Later Gondokoro, Kiro, Lado and Rejaf were abandoned by the Sudanese government, and no longer appear on modern maps.<ref>{{cite journal
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