by admin | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
To better understand the 1902 Anglo-Ethiopia treaty, one has to look for events happened a few years before and after the 1902. The Berlin Conference between 14 European countries that believed to have set the blueprint for dividing Arica ended in 1885. This...
by admin | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Nile Basin Expeditions Several failed expeditions were made by world powers to discover the sources of the Blue and White Niles. To mention just a few, explorations of the Blue Nile were launched by Cyrus (the Persian king who reigned from 550-530 CE), Cyrus’s son...
by admin | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
The seventy-five years between 1805 to 1880 were dominated by Egypt’s Mohammed Ali and his descendants expanding their territories far beyond Egypt. Some historians divide this period into two phases: the rule of Mohammed Ali (1805 – 1848), where the interest...
by admin | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Khedive Ismail Pasha, who ruled Egypt from 1863 to 1879, attempted to invade Ethiopia on several occasions. His military expeditions did not produce the results that he had expected or anticipated. The battles of Gundet and Gura were a showdown between an Egyptian...
by admin | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
The next step in securing the full course of the Nile was to control the source of the Blue Nile, which contributes the largest volume of water to the Nile. Britain devised another strategy for this as it did not want to directly interfere with the sovereign country...
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