Egyptian Sudan 22 The railway that leads to Sudan. The newspaper "Al-Ahram" broadcast the news, which had a great impact in Europe. The Sublime Porte wrote to the Khedive, prohibiting him from such a sale.

On September 2, 1898, Lord Kitchener entered Omdurman, and on September 19 he reached Fashoda, where he met Marchand and learned that the English expedition that set out from Uganda, intending for Khartoum, led by Major MacDonald, and composed of the remnants of Emin Pasha's army in Equatoria, had revolted against its commander and refused to advance from its fort at the entrance to Victoria Nile. Thus, MacDonald could not proceed. Similarly, the other expedition, which they launched on the coast of the Indian Ocean under the command of Kaudish, could not reach Egyptian Sudan.

The English were angered by Marchand's presence in Fashoda and began to threaten the French until Lord Salisbury told the French ambassador, Courcel, "The Sirdar has sufficient force to expel Marchand and his men wherever he wishes." The ambassador understood that this meant England was prepared to declare war. France asked its ally, Russia, about its plan. The Tsar's government replied that it was best to resolve this crisis with respect for France's dignity. Germany remained neutral because it had a secret agreement with England regarding Africa. France was forced to announce the withdrawal of its troops from Fashoda on November 4 under the pretext that these lands belonged to Egypt. Among what Lord Salisbury wrote to the British ambassador in Paris on October 15, 1898: "There is no doubt that Egypt's rights to possess the course of the Nile have been made obscure by the success, but they are established rights that are indisputable and no longer in doubt, after the victory of the Egyptian troops over the Dervishes. Did England not declare this deliberately, the Khedive's rights over these possessions in the Anglo-Egyptian agreement of May 12, 1894?

On October 12, Lord Salisbury told the French ambassador, "The valley