The King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III and Mussolini agreed and at the beginning of August the campaign was ready to start. In June 1940, Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, the Governor-General of Italian East Africa, convinced the Italian Supreme Command ( Commando Supremo) to plan a campaign to conquer a British colony: British Somali Coast Protectorate. Some skirmishes happened even in French Somalia, with an invasion of the western half of Djibouti. As a consequence, Mussolini ordered only some limited aggressive actions to capture territory along the borders of Kenya, Egypt and Sudan. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Italy declared war in May 1940, the Italian troops were not prepared for a prolonged war in Eastern Africa.
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