The Egyptian Sudan.

Meanwhile, the English soldiers were raising their flags over the Egyptian forts. Hicks concluded an agreement with the Negus in June 1881. He left without consulting the Egyptian government or seeking its opinion. A higher government was established there under the presidency of Abdullah Muhammad Abd al-Shakur. As for Massawa, it was handed over to the government in 1885 for 10,000 pounds, to be paid annually. It was a province extending from Ras Kebar on the Red Sea, where the province of Suakin ended, to Halaib at Bab al-Mandab, and inland to Siderat near Kassala. The Italians then called it Eritrea. Egypt's possessions were lost.

In 1884, the Gulf of Aqaba and Al-Wajh fort, built by the Egyptians, were occupied. In February 1884, the Egyptian garrisons were withdrawn from Suakin and returned to Egypt. Zayla and Berbera were granted to the English. More strangely, Egypt still pays tribute to these lands taken from it. The Treaty of Lausanne decided that Egypt would continue to pay this tribute until 1900.

As for the Egyptian forces in Sudan at the time of the Mahdist revolt, in Khartoum, Dongola, and Sennar, according to the statistics, there were: 1,000 in Khartoum, 1,000 in Dongola, 300 in Sennar, 130 in Karkabat, 1,000 in Khartoum, in Sennar, 347 in Omdurman, 102 in Kassala, 934 in Qadarif, 2613 in Bahr al-Ghazal, 884 in Darfur, 8935 in Kordofan, and 300 in Berber. On the Equator line. The Egyptian army numbered 27,000, and in its service were 100 steamers and about 4,000 volunteers, and the number of officials was 2,000.