Sub-Saharan Africa, 25 Oct 1903: Somaliland Campaign
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Political map of Sub-Saharan Africa on 25 Oct 1903 (The Scramble for Africa: Somaliland Campaign), showing the following events: Fall of Sokoto; Protectorate of Mauritania; Fourth Dervish Expedition.

Congo

Free State(union w. Bel.)

F r e n c h W e s t A f r i c a(Fr. col. fed.)

Egypt(Br. occ.)

Madagascar(Fr.)

Anglo-

Egyptian

Sudan(Br. adm.)

East Africa
Protectorate(Br. prot.)

Aden prot.(Br. Ind. prot.)

Portuguese
West Africa(Port.)

Muscat
& Oman(Br. prot.)

Cape
Verde(Port.)

Portuguese
East
Africa(Port.)

German
East Africa(Ger.)

Kamerun(Ger. prot.)

Br. Som.(Br. prot.)

Lower

Congo-

Gabon(Fr.)

Cape
Colony(Br.)

Benadir(It./BC)

German
South
West
Africa(Ger.)

Bechuana-
land(Br. HCT)

Uganda(Br. prot.)

Gold
Coast(Br.)

Sierra Leone(Br.)

Pt. Guinea(Port.)

Rio de Oro(Sp. prot.)

Comoros(Fr. prot.)

Senegambia and Niger(FWA)

Mauritania(Fr. prot.)

Fr. Guinea(FWA)

Ivory
Coast(FWA)

British
Central
Africa(Br. prot.)

Hobyo(It. prot.)

Majerteenia(It. prot.)

Sthn.
Nigeria(Br. prot.)

Katanga(CSK adm.)

N.-E.
Rhod.(BSAC adm.)

Agadez(Fr. vas.)

Fernando Póo(Sp.)

Chad(Fr. terr.)

(Br/Port disp)

B.-N.-W.
Rhod.(BSAC adm.)

Northern
Nigeria(Br. prot.)

Brakna(Fr. prot.)

Darfur(A-E.S. vas.)

Southern
Territories(Fr. terr.)

Southern
Rhodesia(BSAC adm.)

Bulozi(semi-indep)

Nyassa Co.(Port/NC)

Mozambique
Co.(Port/MC)

Zanzibar(Br. prot.)

S.T. & P.(Port.)

Seychelles(Br.)

St. Helena(Br.)

Tristan da Cunha(Br.)

Mayotte(Fr. prot.)

Simon's Town(Br.)

Mar 1903British capture
Sokoto

May 1903French protectorate
over Mauritania

Oct 1903–May 1904British and Ethiopians
defeat Dervishes

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