March 14, 1871.
On the same day Ernst visited Sweden, East Africa and Egypt officially signed the "East Africa Kingdom and Egypt Boundary Agreement," determining the boundaries between the two nations.
Since 1870, the Egyptian Sultanate region began to notice the sudden increase of East Africans in the inland areas. Previously, Kashim had learned from a fleeing Great Prince of the Buganda Sultanate that the Buganda Kingdom had been annihilated by East Africa.
However, around 1868, after East Africa consolidated the original Buganda Kingdom, it started exploring downstream along the Nile River towards the Upper Nile Basin. The basin was densely packed with waterways and crisscrossing rivers, allowing East Africans to travel unobstructed by small boats all the way down the White Nile main stream directly to Sudan's Jezira Plain.
