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British political ambitions The secession of Sudan and the imperial route of communication Egypt, Sudan, the Suez Canal, Ghilmatien, Iraq, and Iran are indispensable. Because it is the road to India, as Lord Curzon says, and the deputies applaud his words and the eloquence of his argument (?). And if Egypt says: Sudan is mine, and I have attained it, and it is my life and from me. It was my life. The English book said: Is this an innovation and in truth an injustice??!

England remained for a century undermining Egypt's strength and refusing it any hope until it seized the opportunity of the Urabi revolution against the government, under the pretext of transferring power to the people, so it occupied the country and took control of security in Sudan. So when the world said to it: Egypt. It replied: Sudan. Until it made it a company between itself and Egypt, a company that England ordered, and neither religious law nor legal law was observed. "The countries did not object to it," as the Manchester Guardian said. And it ignored that Turkey protested, as it was the party concerned.

On the separation of Egypt from Sudan The Times says that Egypt is one nation and Sudan is another. And all this is compounded by the fact that if Sudan is given to Egypt, then Uganda is behind Sudan, and from there the waters of the Nile can be diverted from Egypt, as most books say, and they ignore that Uganda was Egyptian territory. They want to eat it and then try to digest Sudan.

** independent in 1841 by treaties between the states and by firmans. These firmans place Nubia, Darfur, Kordofan, and their dependencies under the administration of Muhammad Ali and his descendants. That is, Egypt, represented by its prince and governor.

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