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And the ambitions of British policy! The Egyptian government, if it did not do so. And the strangest thing in this story is that Stanley, whom England sent on a mission to rescue Emin Pasha from the Equator, sent to Emin Pasha asking him for help to save him from his predicament until he could reach him. So Emin sent him a force that rescued him. When Stanley met him and asked him to return with him, he replied that the Egyptian government had not ordered him to evacuate, but had left him free to act. So Stanley proposed to him, after he refused to evacuate, three proposals: Either to be governor of the Equator in the name of Belgium, with a salary of 100,000 francs per year, and a salary. Or to be governor of the Southern Equatorial Province on behalf of England (40,000 francs). Or to evacuate and return to Egypt. Emin Pasha refused to move from one shadow to another. Thus Stanley failed and returned empty-handed. The Egyptian officers inside Khartoum in the year 1888 were captured. These officers feared Emin Pasha and feared that he would leave the country. And the officials who had not received a single piaster for two years became the owners of their country and sacrificed everything for their homeland. Meanwhile, the British continued to pressure Emin Pasha until he evacuated the country on April 10, 1889. Egypt withdrew from the affairs of Sudan, and the Egyptian flag that had covered the region for a century was lowered. England began to look towards Uganda and placed it under its protection. In 1889, Germany recognized England's influence in the Nile basin, and a treaty was concluded with Germany. A treaty was also concluded with the Belgian Congo government in 1894. It stipulated that the Congo government would allow the Kap railway to pass through its territory and England's territory, and that the Congo government would have influence over the Nile westwards to Fashoda. When the order for this agreement was announced, Mr. Hanotaux, the French Foreign Minister, said: "This is an invalid agreement, an agreement on what England does not own, which is the Sultan's property, guaranteed by international treaties, and the Khedive of Egypt, who is bound by treaties that stipulate...

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