Through the latter, he was introduced to Mahmoud Harbi, the Vice President of the Government Council of French Somaliland and a former comrade of the Sultan in the French army during the World War II campaign.
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When one draws a line from Cape Town to Cairo (Rhodes' dream) and another line from Dakar to French Somaliland (now Djibouti) by the Red Sea in the Horn (the French ambition), these two lines intersect in eastern South Sudan near the town of Fashoda (present-day Kodok), explaining its strategic importance.
Léonce Lagarde, comte de Rouffeyroux, (1860, Lempdes (Haute-Loire) – 15 February 1936, Paris) was a French colonial governor of French Somaliland and ambassador.