Egyptian Sudan 8 placed its governor in Khartoum, and it includes the Equatorial Province, northern Uganda, the Lado Province, Makalla, and Bahr el Ghazal, which are Egyptian territories leased by the British government by agreement on May 14, 1894, to the Belgian Congo. As for the current borders of Egyptian Sudan, they are: from the north, the line of 22 degrees North latitude to the north of Halfa, and from the south, the borders of Uganda, belonging to Britain, on the line of 5 degrees North latitude, and from the east, the Red Sea, Eritrea, and the land of Misha, and from the west and southwest, the Great Desert and the lands of Wadi and the mountains between the Congo River and Bahr el Ghazal. The length now from north to south is about 1200 miles and from east to west about 1000 miles, because the Equatorial Province, of which Emin Pasha remained an Egyptian governor in, with me as an Egyptian soldier, money, and scribes, was carved out of Sudan and attached to Uganda, which was under Egypt's protection. After the restoration of Sudan, Mongala became the furthest border of Egyptian Sudan. What remained of the Sudanese Egyptian territories to the south were attached to Uganda, and Lado and its surroundings were given to the King of Belgium, on the condition that they would return to the British after his death. Thus, they carved out of Egyptian Sudan 450 miles in length and 400 miles in width, and they removed the lakes from which the Nile originates and made them their property in order to control Sudan and Egypt together. This was not enough for them, as the Red Sea and its coasts are essential for the empire's communication lines, so they removed the Egyptians from these coasts after Egypt's reins fell into their hands. Thus, they destroyed the "Egyptian Empire" in Sudan, took its spoils, and divided the booty with Italy and Belgium. The area of Egyptian Sudan in 1883 was equivalent to the area of France, Asia, and Germany combined. Now only a third remains, and this third is claimed by the British to be theirs, not Egypt's. Egypt's trade with Sudan was significant.