Mombassa and Gwadar

[arandomperson5000]

Here are several ideas that I find quite interesting which could be implemented into this mod.

1. Gwadar Oman is one of the few countries outside of Europe that had a colonial empire, astonishingly the Omani Colonial Empire had survived until 1958 when its last colonial territory the city of Gwadar was bought by Pakistan for 5.5 billion Rupees even though its East African territories seceded from Oman in the form of the Sultanate of Zanzibar during a succession dispute in 1861. I think the transfer of Gwadar from Oman Pakistan definitely needs an event or a decision, Gwadar could even be given its own province considering its strategic importance as a deep water port near the Persian Gulf. It is especially important to China which receives 60% of its oil from the Persian Gulf and has funded the construction of the Gwadar Port since 2015 as a part of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor plan. The port has been fully operational since 14 November 2016 and since late 2015 the port has been leased to China for 43 years until 2053. Sources https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/pakistans-fatal-shore/307385/ http://www.pakvoices.pk/gwadar-harbor-village-to-emerging-port-city/ http://www.dailyo.in/politics/chabahar-gwadar-port-india-pakistan-china-ties-cpec-afghanistan/story/1/11256.html https://tribune.com.pk/story/122720/gwadar-an-unfulfilled-dream/ http://historypak.com/custody-gwadar-1958/ http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/new-trade-route-via-pakistan-s-gwadar-port-opened/story-goQHygSUA7wIZxMW9PUPQO.html http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/why-is-pakistans-gwadar-port-important-for-china/listshow/55489519.cms

2. Mombassa Mombasa was also a part of the Oman colonial empire, however unlike Gwadar it seceded under sovereignty of the Sultanate of Zanzibar in 1861. In 1890 the Helgioland-Zanzibar Treaty was signed between the German Empire and the United Kingdom in which Germany gained the island of Heligoland from the UK in exchange to giving up its claims on Zanzibar. the UK declared a protectorate over Zanzibar and the Zanzibari lands on the mainland were divided between the UK and Germany. Mombasa was transferred to British control however it was a part of a ten mile strip called the protectorate of Kenya which the Sultanate of Zanzibar had leased to the British while not giving up their claims on this coastal strip. During the 1950s tensions where rising between the Swahili and Arab elites and the Kamba majority over status of the coastal stirp. The Kamba wanted the strip to united with the rest of Kenya upon independence while the Swahili elites formed a movement called Mwamboa which wanted autonomy or even outright independence for the coastal strip from Kenya. In 1963 the Sultan of Zanzibar would ceded his sovereignty over the Protectorate of Kenya to the newly independent country of Kenya which later became a republic a year later in 1964. the Mwamboa movement faded into obscurity tensions calmed down between the Swahili minority and the Kamba majority however since the late 1990s tensions have resurfaced in Mombasa this time with the people of the Coast Province and the Kenyan government over perceived political and economic discrimination against the people of the Coast province. Separatist organisations such as the Mombasa Republican Council have emerged, wanting the independence of the Coast Province from Kenya. Sources https://jamestown.org/program/kenyas-coast-province-and-the-mombasa-republican-council-islamists-separatists-or-political-pawns/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/7484/1/Sultan's_Flag.pdf https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/ttu-ir/bitstream/handle/2346/12379/31295000269471.pdf?sequence=1 http://mobile.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/How-Kenya-got-the-contentious--coastal-strip/1950774-2094726-format-xhtml-wfcqvqz/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/06/kenya-ocean-coast-secessionist-party

[simsulla]

I like the ideas. Gwadar is an important connection point and ties in to #943. Unfortunately, to look nice on the map it might require yet-another-province. Mombasa, nice suggestion. But my eyes would be more on Kenya it self, that is riddled with ethnic conflict, and a split-up is no impossible, where then Mombasa would be one split-of.

[arandomperson5000]

So far I could only find two separatist movements in Kenya, one advocating for the independence of Maasailand from both Kenya and Tanzania and another advocated for either an independent Wajir or the unification to of Wajir with Somalia. However during the 1960s the Kenya African Democratic Union a now defunct political party representing the Kalenjin, Maasai, Turkana and Danbury advocated for a federal system for Kenya under three autonomous, self-governing regions (Rift Valley, Western and Coast) in Kenya, which would share governance of the country based upon the mandate of the regional governments.

[arandomperson5000]

In HPM there are some provinces such as Gwadar that have been added into the mod which could be used as general idea of what potential provinces we could put in NWO in the future here are a few pictures of what the new provinces in HPM look like.

Gwadar

Khasab

Guantanamo Bay

Ceuta and Melilla

This is just my personal opinion but I think Melilla is a little too big as for me it doesen't really look nice on the map. I think Melilla's size in HPM is a more appropriate size for Melilla as it isn't too big or too small and it is similar what you done with the Gibraltar province.