The news reached Sudan, and the newspaper "Al-Ahram" published a telegram that had a great impact in Europe. The French opened the door to the Sudan, and it was forbidden for them to trade like this.

Lord Kitchener entered Omdurman on September 19, 1898. He arrived in Fashoda, met Marchand, and learned that the English expedition that had set out from Uganda towards Khartoum, led by Major Macdonald and composed of a contingent of Emin Pasha's army, had revolted against its leaders and stopped at the entrance to Lake Victoria Nyanza. Macdonald could not advance. Similarly, the other expedition they found on the coast of the Red Sea, led by Cavendish, could not reach the Sudan.

The English were angered by Marchand's presence in Fashoda and threatened the French. Lord Salisbury told the French ambassador, Courcel, that the Sirdar had enough force to expel Marchand and send him wherever he wished. The ambassador understood that this meant England was ready to declare war. France asked its ally, Russia, about its plan. The Tsar's government replied that it was best to resolve this crisis peacefully. Germany, which had an alliance with England, advised France to withdraw its troops from Fashoda on November 3, 1898, while preserving France's dignity in Africa.

This country belongs to Egypt. What Lord Salisbury wrote to the English ambassador in Paris on October 5, 1898, leaves no doubt that Egypt's rights to possess the Nile basin were due to the success of the Mahdist campaign. However, these rights are established and indisputable, and there is no longer any doubt after the victory of the Egyptian troops over the Dervishes.

England deliberately acknowledged the French rights to these possessions. In a telegram from the English Consul in Khartoum on May 21, 1898, Lord Salisbury stated in a telegram to Courcel that the Nile Valley...