The three powers felt concerned in 1906 when the Emperor's illness appeared. The disappearance of Menelik could lead to the future of the empire, their interests in it, and the possibility of conflicting interests between the three powers due to tribal and regional wars, and perhaps a renewal. In 1906, the three powers hastened to conclude an agreement.

The bilateral agreement signed in 1903 between Britain and Italy aimed to the agreement, which received the Emperor's support, to preserve the sovereignty of Abyssinia and protect the special interests of these powers and maintain the status quo and neutrality in the internal affairs of Abyssinia.

As the Emperor's illness increased, the influence of the representatives of the three powers grew, reaching its peak with the Emperor's death, followed by the World War I, where the emergence of Germany and its alliance with Turkey, and Emperor Lij Iyasu's inclination towards them, led to overt intervention by the three powers and their planning to depose him, which they succeeded in doing in the year 1916.

The relationship between the two countries in the first third of the twentieth century: With the British victory over Khalifa Abdullahi, Menelik quickly sent a polite letter to Sirdar Kitchener congratulating him on the occupation of Sudan and the elimination of the Islamic state there, and thanking him for releasing the Abyssinian prisoners who were in Omdurman prison. The subsequent period in the relationship between the two countries was characterized by preoccupation with two issues: border demarcation and the problems arising from it, and then border trade.

Britain was closely monitoring Emperor Menelik's expansionist movement towards its colonies south of his kingdom, "Shoa," and to the east. When his forces began to move south towards Omdurman, it realized that it would later clash with Menelik's expansionist intentions on its borders with Sudan. Therefore, at the beginning of 1903, it sent a mission led by Rennell Rodd to reach an understanding with him. regarding their future relations, driven by the new situation of Italy's defeat in "Adwa" and the French movement towards Abyssinia along the Nile. Borders were at the top of the mission's agenda, in addition to obtaining Menelik's cooperation in preventing arms from reaching Khalifa Abdullahi and giving Britain a trade advantage. Although Britain was prepared to cede to Menelik a part of the land around the Blue Nile, reaching north of Al-Rusayris, in order to secure his cooperation against the Mahdist state, Menelik surprised the British envoy by revealing that he