Kodok (formerly Fashoda) is a town in the southeastern Sudanese state of Upper Nile. It is chiefly known for being the site of the 1898 Fashoda Incident, which brought France and Britain to the point of war and ended the Scramble for Africa. In 1904 the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale that developed prompted the British to change the name to Kodok in the hopes of obliterating the memory of the incident.