Editing Lado Enclave (section)

==History==
Traditionally the home of the [[Lugbara people|Lugbara]], [[Kakwa people|Kakwa]],<ref>Middleton, p. 11.</ref> [[Bari people|Bari]],<ref name=g79>Gleichen, p. 79.</ref> and [[Moru people]]s,<ref name=s277/> the area became part of the Ottoman-[[Egypt]]ian province of [[Equatoria]], and was first visited by Europeans in 1841/42, becoming an ivory and slave trading centre.<ref>Canby, p. 497.</ref> Lado, as part of the [[Bahr el Ghazal (region of South Sudan)|Bahr-el-Ghazal]], came under the control of the Khedivate of Egypt and in 1869 Sir [[Samuel Baker]] created an administration in the area, based in [[Gondokoro]], suppressed the slave trade and opened up the area to commerce.<ref>"Sir Samuel White Baker" (2013) ''Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition'', 1.</ref>

[[Charles George Gordon]] succeeded Baker as Governor of Equatoria in 1874 and noting the unhealthy climate of Gondokoro, moved the administrative centre downstream to a spot he called [[Lado, South Sudan|Lado]],<ref>Middleton, pp. 169–170.</ref> laying the town out in the pattern of an Indian [[cantonment]], with short, wide and straight streets, and shady trees.<ref>Gray, p. 108.</ref> Gordon made the development of primary industry in Lado a priority, with the start of commercial farming of [[cotton]], [[sesame]] and [[Sorghum bicolor|durra]] and the introduction of livestock farming.<ref>Cohen, p. 1660.</ref> Although Gordon stationed over three hundred soldiers throughout the region<ref>Gleichen, p. 235.</ref> his efforts to consolidate Egyptian control over the area were unsuccessful and when he resigned as governor in 1876, only Lado and the few garrison settlements along the Nile could be considered administered.<ref>Flint, p. 143.</ref>

[[Emin Pasha]] was appointed as governor to replace Gordon and began to build up the region's defences and developed Lado into a modern town, founding a mosque, Koranic school and a hospital, so by 1881 Lado boasted a population of over 5000 tokuls (round mud huts common to the region).<ref>Gray, pp. 140–141.</ref>

Russian explorer [[Wilhelm Junker]] arrived in the Lado area in 1884, fleeing the [[Mahdist War|Mahdist uprising]] in the Sudan, and made it his base for his further explorations of the region.<ref name=m300>Middleton, p. 300.</ref> Junker wrote complimentarily of Lado town, in particular its brick buildings and neat streets.<ref name=m300/>

During the Mahdist rule of the region, Lado was allowed to fall into disuse but Rejaf was made into a penal settlement.<ref>Gleichen, p. 262.</ref>