On January 19, 1899, the United Kingdom and Egypt signed an agreement on the co-government of the Sudan. The agreement on the co-government of the Sudan was signed with Egypt in Cairo after the suppression of the Mahdi uprising of 1881¨C1889. On January 19, 1899, the United Kingdom and Egypt signed an agreement on the co-government of the Sudan. It stipulated that the military and civil rule of the Sudan was administered by the British-appointed governor. The vast majority of the administrative expenses for managing the Sudan were borne by Egypt, but the profits of the ¡°development¡± of the Sudan were all for British exclusion. In 1924, the British abolished the agreement, and the Sudan was entirely under British rule. In 1936, the British Union Treaty establ