Kiro (South Sudan)

Kiro was a colonial post on the territory of the current province of Central Equatoria of South Sudan on the western side of Bahr al Jebel or the White Nile . It was part of the Enclave Lado .

Kiro
A country	South Sudan
State	Central Equatoria
History and Geography
Timezone	UTC + 3

In 1900, 1,500 Congo Free State soldiers arrived at the Lado Enclave and were divided between three posts on the Nile : Kiro, Lado and Regjaf ^[1] . After the final defeat of the Mahdi rebels by the British army under the command of General Herbert Kitchener in 1898, the Nile to the border of the protectorate of Uganda became part of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan . The expedition up the river from the city of Omdurman arrived here in December 1900. The post was created in Kiro, but was subsequently transferred to Mongalla in April 1901, since Kiro was in Belgian territory, more precisely in the territory of the Enclave Lado ^[2] .

Edward Fothergill visited Sudan around 1901; he traveled along Mongall between Lado in the south and Kiro in the north, but along the east bank of the river. In his opinion, “Kiro, the most northern post of the Congo on the Nile, is a very beautiful and clean town. Lado, the second post seems to be even more beautiful. " However, he pointed out that although the buildings were well built, they were too closely tuned ^[3] .

James J. Harrison wrote in 1904 after returning from a hunting trip to the Free State of Congo that the west bank of the Nile between Kiro and Lado was empty for the simple reason that “almost all banks are low, turning into swamps, providing refuge for millions of mosquitoes” . He found the area around Kiro peaceful, with good pastures and fertile land a few miles from the river ^[4] .

The Lado Enclave was transferred to Britain in 1910. Later, Gondocoro , Kiro, Lado and Regjaf were abandoned by the Government of the Sudan, and are no longer marked on modern maps ^[5] .