Sources of Intelligence: A Bibliography of the Monthly Sudan Intelligence Reports

An overlooked source in Northeast African history is the series of printed monthly intelligence reports issued first by the Egyptian, and then the Sudan intelligence department between 1892 and 1929. Initially prepared by F. W. Wingate, these reports at first contained reports on Egypt's former territories in the Sudan, as well as in neighbouring countries. The reports reprinted substantial reports in its appendices, and these reports contained substantial military, political and economic information on the Mahdist state and adjacent territories. The first 59 such reports chronicle Egypt's preparations for the reconquest of the Sudan, which was achieved with the defeat of the main Mahdist armies in 1898. For the next 28 years the reports reproduced in the appendices of the Sudan Intelligence Reports contained a variety of information about the peoples and government of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The following bibliography is a complete list of appendices published between 1892 and 1926, after which publication of appendices ended.