Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — Saltan Assassinated In Wadal. [ARTICLE]

Saltan Assassinated In Wadal.

Sultan Ibraham of the province of Wadal in the Soudan, has been assassinated. Wadal is in the Soudan and is generally conceded as being reserved to France. It extends from Darfur to Kanem and from French Congo to the Sahara. It has a population of about one million and has an area estimated at 150,000 square miles. The Mabas, a Mohammedan negro race, are the ruling tribe, but there are many Arabs also. The population professes adherence to the Mahdi-Es-Se-nussi, the head of a sect which is said to be by far the moat powerful in Africa.