South Sudan: Mehmet Emin Pasha (28 March 1840 - 23 October 1892), physician, naturalist and governor of Equatoria. Portrait, 1890. Mehmet Emin Pasha, born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, was an Ottoman physician of German Jewish origin, who served as governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria (modern southern South Sudan). Emin Pasha was appointed as governor of Equatoria by the Khedive of Egypt in 1878. The Mahdist War that began in 1881 cut Equatoria off from the outside world by 1883. Emin was rescued by Henry Morton Stanley and the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition in 1888.

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