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| 1895 |
| | | The British government takes responsibility for Kenya, as the East Africa Protectorate | |
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| 1896 |
| | | The Ethiopian emperor, Menelik II, inflicts a shattering defeat on Italian forces at Aduwa | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Britain unites Buganda and three other kingdoms into the single Uganda Protectorate | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Italy, one of the local colonial powers, accepts Ethiopia's claim to the Ogaden region of the Somali territory | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Germany claims Ruanda and Urundi as a joint colony adjacent to German East Africa | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Winston Churchill gallops into battle with the Twenty-First Lancers at Omdurman | |
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| 1898 |
| | | French and British forces meet at Fashoda, in a potentially explosive incident in the scramble for Africa | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Kitchener's victory at Omdurman brings to an end thirteen years of rule in Sudan by followers of the Mahdi | |
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| 1899 |
| | | The Sudan begins half a century of supposedly joint rule by Britain and Egypt | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Mohammed ibn Abdullah (the Mad Mullah in British eyes) leads an uprising in British Somaliland | |
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