Sharif conducts military campaigns as far west…

Sharif conducts military campaigns as far west as Borno and eventually establishes Wadai's hegemony over Bagirmi and kingdoms as far away as the Chari River.

In Mecca, Sharif had met the founder of the Senussi Islamic brotherhood, a movement that is strong among the inhabitants of Cyrenaica (in present-day Libya) and that will become a dominant political force and source of resistance to French colonization.

Indeed, the militaristic Wadai will oppose French domination until well into the twentieth century.