and the British policy's beginnings. He killed them and burned the village. On November 25, 1899, Hilla and Abd Allah Taimashi and his wife were killed, and only Othman Dafna escaped. He headed for Algeria and found Abd Allah Taimashi's camp. A boy of fifteen approached him and said, "The Khalifa is dead, and I am his son." Then he found Abd Allah's body, riddled with bullets. Prince Ali wad Helu and Fadil died beside him, along with the bodies of other princes. From among these corpses, Yunis al-Daqqi rose alive. In January 1900, Othman Dafna was captured in Jabal Tor, thus ending the Mahdist rule. When Wingate Pasha was appointed Governor of Sudan, he requested the dispatch of Zubeir Pasha to him. Gordon had requested him before the fall of Khartoum but he was not sent. General Wingate said that if Zubeir had been sent to Khartoum when the danger to Gordon arose, Gordon would not have perished and Khartoum would not have fallen. However, the reasons that prevented his dispatch or the dispatch of Abd al-Qadir Pasha in 1884-1885 were removed in 1899-1900. So he was sent to his country, where he had a glorious history. He was the one who handed over Darfur to Ismail Pasha Ayoub without war or fighting. When order was restored in those lands, they focused on railway lines, and Lord Cromer described these projects in his report in 1899. In 1902, England's war in the Transvaal ended, and it was time to complete the Cape-Cairo project. Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, returned for a visit and met the Khedive on December 6 of that year. He departed from Suez on the 7th, heading for Uganda and South Africa. On January 3, 1903, Lord Cromer announced these grand projects, which were the colonization of Sudan, then he arrived in Egypt and Sudan from South Africa. Since the agreement of March 21, 1899, between France and England, no other international incident worth mentioning occurred except the commercial agreement of 1902 between France and Egypt. Egypt alone concluded this agreement, which was effective in Egypt and Sudan, contrary to what was stated in