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Rabih az-Zubayr's Conquest of Bornu

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Kukawa · Dikwa · Bornu

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

In 1893 the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr conquered the ancient Kanem-Bornu Empire and sacked Kukawa, ruling from Dikwa until his own state was destroyed by the French at Kousseri in 1900.

Belligerents2

Rabih az-Zubayr's forces
Kanem-Bornu Empire

ON THE MAPKanem-Bornu Empire

Sources

Wikipedia: Rabih az-Zubayr
Histories of Bornu and the central Sudan
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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