And Al-Hajj Ya'bud. Allah and Al-Duwaym. And even the White Nile west of what prompted Britain to stop negotiations on the borders until its control over Sudan was completed. Before the fall of Omdurman and when the collapse of the Mahdist state began, Menelik pushed his forces and they occupied Qallabat, Fasher, Beni Shangul, and the Abara sector around the Sobat River, then handed over the negotiations again through the British representative in Addis Ababa, John Harrington. It became clear to him that Menelik was aware of the importance of actual possession in claiming the lands he claimed within the borders of Sudan, and that he had a belief in the acceptance of Britain and other European powers for the borders that were between them in his proclamation to these countries (1891). Menelik's claims to Sudanese lands reached Khartoum. After several negotiation sessions, the dispute was confined to Beni Shangul and Qallabat. While Menelik's insistence on Beni Shangul was understandable due to its fame for gold and its important location for trade with Sudan, navigation, and control of the Blue Nile, Menelik, when talking about Qallabat, presented them with emotional reasons, namely that it had a large number of Christians and that it was the place where Emperor Yohannes was killed, and he demanded that it be granted to him, even though he admitted that it was outside the borders of his state. Just as the situation was in all the colonies between the colonial powers, and as Lord Salisbury expressed it, "We were busy drawing lines on maps relating to a region and land that no white man had set foot on. We were granting each other mountains, rivers, and lakes... The only obstacle we faced in this distribution was that we did not know where those mountains, rivers, and lakes were located." Britain granted Menelik Beni Shangul in exchange for guaranteeing the monopoly of gold prospecting for British companies and divided the rest between him and Sudan. It gave him the old city east of Khor Abu Naqara and kept Qallabat al-Jadidah west of the Khor within Sudan's borders, where the Mahdists had built a strong military fort. This distribution applied to the saying of Huet: "The political map of Africa is the product of a diplomatic chess game between the colonial powers... This game began in the European councils by individuals who had never seen Africa at all."