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==Belgian rule==
British desire for a [[Cape to Cairo railway]] led them to negotiate with the Belgians to exchange the area that became the Lado Enclave for a narrow strip of territory in eastern Congo between Lakes [[Lake Albert (Africa)|Albert]] and [[Lake Tanganyika|Tanganyika]]. These negotiations resulted in the 1894 British-Congolese Treaty, signed on 12 May, under which the British leased all of the Nile basin south of the ten° north latitude to [[Leopold II of Belgium|King Leopold II of the Belgians]] for the period of his lifetime.<ref name=s277>
The treaty also dictated that the whole of the Bahr-el-Ghazal (with the exception of the Lado Enclave) be ceded to the Congo State during the lifetime of King Leopold "and his successors." The British knew that Belgium would be unable to occupy Lado "for some time".<ref>Emerson, p. 194.</ref>
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By 1899, the British Government was claiming that the Congo State had not fullilled its obligations of the Anglo-Congolese Treaty and therefore had no right to claim the Bahr-el-Ghazal. At the same time the Convention was signed, the Congo State forces had occupied Rejaf, and by a tacit understanding, the State was permitted to remain in occupation of the Lado Enclave. "The Bahr-el-Ghazal has never ceased to be British, and any extension of the sphere of influence of the Congo State beyond the limits of the Lado Enclave, with out the express sanction of the British Government is a wholly unjustifiable, and indeed, filibustering proceeding."<ref>"The Foreign Situation", ''The Advertiser (Adelaide)'', 11 November 1899, p. 9.</ref>
In 1899, Leopold wanted to annul the Franco-Congolese Treaty, allowing him to gain more territory but the British opposed it, claiming that "serious consequences" would occur if Leopold attempted to expand the Enclave's borders.<ref>Emerson, p. 198.</ref>
In January 1900, some bored officials who had decided to explore the swamps beyond the Lado border were found by a British patrol. British officials believed this to be an official sortie and considered sending a military expedition to the Enclave.<ref>Emerson, p. 199.</ref>
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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. However, in reality, following Leopold's death and the subsequent 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 Captain Harry Kelly of the British Royal Engineers was sent to the region to adjust the Sudan-Uganda border,<ref name=sharkey>Sharkey, R. "Book Reviews: ''Imperial boundary making: the diary of Captain Kelly and the Sudan-Uganda boundary commission of 1913'', in ''International Journal of African Historical Studies'', 1998, Vol. 31, Issue 2.</ref> with the plan to grant Uganda a southern part of the Enclave, which Uganda could more easily administer, and in return to transfer part of northern Uganda to the Sudan, thereby placing all navigable parts of the Nile under Sudanese control.<ref name=sharkey/> This was achieved on 1 January 1914 when Sudan formally exchanged part of the Enclave for a stretch of the Upper Nile.<ref>Holt & Daly, p. 120.</ref> The area of the Lado Enclave integrated into Uganda was renamed [[West Nile sub-region|West Nile]], best known as the ancestral home of [[Idi Amin]].<ref>Decker, p. 23.</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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