Menenra I continued a politic of expansion in Nubia and to keep the control over the region he ordered to guard particularly the oasis in the western desert. The most important ones were Kharga, Dakhla and Farofra. Particularly in Dakhia, in Balat, there was an Egyptian colony, where the agricultural resources were exploited. According to Manetone, Merenra I reigned for seven years, according to other historians about ten years, while the archaeological finds suggest around forty. These differences in the dates could be explained by a correction.