Wad Habuba Revolt

The Wad Habuba Revolt (Arabic: ثورة ود حبوبة) was an uprising in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in mid-1908.

Its causes laid in religious opposition to Christian British rule in Sudan, and a desire to restore the Mahdist State.

It was led Mahdist War veteran, Abd al-Qadir Muhammad Imam Wad Habuba.

Colonial authorities took the revolt very seriously and dispatched 2 infantry companies to quell the uprising.

1864,[3] Governor of Blue Nile province 1905–1914[3]) suffered 17 killed and wounded.