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Realised that Lake Albert, thus the Nile River, and the Kongo river, were quite close.
(You can see the northern branch of the river being quite close to the Lake.)
With a POD in whenever, have a colonial power(supposedly, Germany, France or Britain) assumedly control both powers(does not need to) and construct the canal, for whatever reason.