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IOTL, the Juba Conference of 1947 was organized between British colonial officials and Sudanese separatist delegates for negotiating the future of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It was decided that the ethnically diverse region would break off from the empire as a single state. This situation might have been unstable from the start, and eventually concluded logically with the South Sudanese independence wars of later, ending in 2011 with South Sudan's full independence.
But what if the Juba Conference had gone differently? I can't exactly trace my sources for this claim, but it seems like the South Sudanese delegates were aiming for a union with Uganda. If this union does happen, would North Sudan then be pressed into joining Egypt? Would Egypt be interested in annexing the place, considering that it's ethnically Arab but still a bit poor?
What would be the larger-scale effects of OTL Sudan being partitioned between Egypt and a "Nilotic Republic/Confederation"?
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