South Sudan for Libya

Say Italy remains neutral in world war 2 for whatever reason and Egypt gains Sudan in 1950s or 1940s

Would it be possible Egypt to offer South Sudan in exchange for Libya

Would Italy accept especially before the discovery of Libyan oil
 
The ethnic division between Arabs in the north and Black Africans in the south has been around for centuries.

I understand that, I just meant I don't know if the region had enough recognition. Like the British never divided the Sudan, so why would they trade it? And even if they did, would it have the same exact borders as the current South Sudan?
 
And even if they did, would it have the same exact borders as the current South Sudan?
If I recall correctly it did have the same borders as the modern day border is based on South Sudan autonomous region which is in return based on the old division by the British.
 
Say Italy remains neutral in world war 2 for whatever reason and Egypt gains Sudan in 1950s or 1940s

Would it be possible Egypt to offer South Sudan in exchange for Libya

Would Italy accept especially before the discovery of Libyan oil
Libya was officially part of the Italian metropole and had a large population of Italian settlers. They certainly aren't giving it up.
 
How would the Italians get to a landlocked colony, even if they wanted it? According to this BBC Country Profile, oil wasn't discovered in Southern Sudan until 1978. Before then this area only would've been useful as a way to connect Egypt-Sudan with other colonies for London's Cape to Cairo railway plans.

There's very gain from controlling this territory other than keeping it out of someone else's hands or connecting a set of other colonies.

The '50s and '60s is also way too late in the twentieth century for haggling over colonial territories, and most forms of colonial rule itself to still be acceptable.

This is based on a somewhat constructivist view of international relations, but by then any colonial powers that still existed would be evolving towards loose confederations with a unified identity, like Portuguese Lusotropicalism, a series of ex-British colonies that are commonwealth members or have the Queen as head of state. Without WW2 Libya would probably cease to be a colony and be converted into an integral part of Italy as much as Sardinia and Calabria are.
 
No, Libya was considered not only part of Italy proper but there were a big effort to send there colonist, anybody that try to propose this type of exchange will be thought being out of his mind
 
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