As time reached 1884, the Spanish had gradually achieved results in their colonization of Southern Congo.
The Portuguese successively occupied the Lunda Kingdom and the Bwonda Kingdom, and pushed their sphere of influence into the Baloselan Kingdom with their own strength.
From the perspective of distance, there was less than 500 kilometers between Portugal's West Africa Colony and the Mozambique Colony, and the Great African Colony Portugal envisioned seemed to be on the verge of realization.
Just as the Portuguese were imagining their success, reality quickly dealt them a blow.
Portugal's colonial actions in Southern Congo had long attracted the attention of the British, and the impending merger of Portugal's West and East African colonies gave the British a sense of threat.
If Portugal successfully merged the West Africa Colony with the Mozambique Colony, the planned connection between the Cairo and Cape Town colonies by the British Government would be interrupted.
