Walvis Bay Harbor.

The only excellent deep-water port on the Atlantic coast of East Africa, and to the north is the East African naval port of Swakopmund, which is also the most isolated base of the East African Navy on the mainland.

"Today is the official completion of the Mangjing Highway, which is of great significance to the Walvis Bay Port, which represents a smoother traffic between the Walvis Bay Port City and the inland of East Africa, and the development of the Walvis Bay Port City will be further in the future."

The opening of the Mangjing Highway was the happiest for the mayor of Walvis Bay, Yasolde, which also ended the history of no road from the interior of East Africa to South Africa.

The Manggu Highway starts from the western part of the Hohenzollern province, that is, the western end of the horizontal line of the East African Central Railway, Manggu City, passes through Letania Province, and finally enters Southwest Africa, arriving at Walvis Bay Port City, the whole highway is more than 1,300 kilometers long, and more than 20,000 people participated in the construction.

There are no plans to build a railway between Mangu City and Walvis Bay Port in East Africa for the time being, mainly because the line is too empty, and although the rest of East Africa is also vast and sparsely populated, it is a small amount compared to Southwest Africa, that is, Namibia in the previous life.

Although the East African Railway has not made much money in recent years, grain, special products, minerals, and even industrial products and people along the line have flowed.

The construction of a railway between the city of Mangu and Walvis Bay would not have achieved this effect, because there was no population, let alone industry and agriculture between the two cities.

Therefore, the East African government decided to build only one road to connect Walvis Bay Port with the interior of East Africa, which would be the most cost-effective and hassle-free.

Although the road condition is very poor compared to other roads in East Africa, there is better than nothing, and in the past, from the inland to Walvis Bay Harbor, you can only pass through forests, grasslands, deserts, plateaus and mountains, and there are no obvious landmarks, so there is a risk of getting lost at any time.

With the Mango Whale Highway, most of these problems have been solved, and there is not much precipitation in southwest Africa, so the roads are not as frequently maintained as in eastern East Africa, and the only thing that needs to be taken care of is the section of the road that passes through the desert area.

"Mayor Yasolde, congratulations, in the future, we in Swakopmund will probably have to borrow from you to contact the inland, alas, I'm afraid that in the future, Walvis Bay Port will be the first in Southwest Africa!" The smell of sourness filled the air.

Swakopmund is the mayor of Swakopmund, Swakopmund is only 30 kilometers away from Walvis Bay Harbor, and the end of the Mangwhale Highway is established in Walvis Bay Harbor, Swakopmund naturally can only accept fate, who makes Walvis Bay Port conditions better than Swakopmund Port, which will definitely be an economic powerhouse for the development of Southwest Africa in the future.

Moreover, the port of Swakopmund is still a military port, which further limits the future development of Swakopmund, so Val is very envious of Yasolde, but not jealous, after all, the division of labor between the two cities is different.

"Hehe, Mayor Val laughed, the two of us, it is difficult to be brothers, come here to endure hardships together, after all, who doesn't know that Southwest Africa is the worst in East Africa, what is the difference between this and exile, you said that it is the same desert, why is the Northern Province and Juba Province so good!" Yasolde changed the subject.

If you want to say that between Walvis Bay Harbor City and Swakopmund, you can really distinguish between the big and small kings, that is, Swakopmund is essentially the knife guard of Walvis Bay Harbor City.

Of course, the entire 2,000-kilometer coastline of southwest Africa is within the scope of the Navy of Swakopmund Harbour, except that Walvis Bay Harbour is next to Swakopmund.

There are only four settlements along the coast of southwest Africa, and if you look at Walvis Bay and Swakopmund as a whole, there are only two settlements left along the coast.

They are the mouth of the Orange River and Lüderitz in the south, which is more inhospitable and therefore only a stronghold of a few hundred men to prevent anyone from landing on Lüderitz Bay.

The combined population of these four places is basically 60% of the total immigrant population in Southwest Africa and East Africa, that is, more than 13,000 people, including more than 1,000 in the navy, more than 2,000 in the army, and less than 10,000 ordinary people.

There are not many people in East Africa in Southwest Africa, and there are quite few indigenous people, there may have been tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people at the beginning, but now there may be only more than 10,000, and these remaining natives should live in the oasis of the inland hinterland desert, so they have not been captured by East Africa.

There are two places in East Africa where the indigenous people can never finish it, one is the Congo rainforest, and the other is Southwest Africa (including the Kalahari Basin), because of the huge territory and the harsh environment, East Africa can only eliminate those more conspicuous or unlucky indigenous tribes.

But this is not a big deal, and there are not too many indigenous people who can survive in this hostile environment, just like the Eskimos in the Arctic or the Indians in the Amazon rainforest, and the fertility rate is very low.

Just like Namibia in the previous life, the country's population is only more than 2 million in the 21st century, which seems out of place compared with the countries with explosive population growth in neighboring Africa.

Moreover, there are some differences between the indigenous people of Southwest Africa and the mainstream black people in Africa, the Bantu people, many of whom belong to the Khoisan people, who are independent ancient peoples.

Many of the Khoisans captured in East Africa were of Bantu descent, after all, the Khoisan were at a disadvantage in competition with black Africans and were driven to South Africa.

Even in South-West Africa, where the more advanced Bantu inevitably occupy some of the better places, East Africa has now eliminated them, and the remaining fish that have slipped through the net are basically the pure-blooded Khoisans.

This point has been scientifically proven in previous lives, that is, about 60%-71% of the black population of South Africa has a matrilineal origin from the Khoisan people, as for why it is matrilineal, it is natural that the males were exterminated by the Bantu people.

In Ernst's view, the remaining Khoisan people in East Africa are fine as long as they remain in the harsh environment of Southwest Africa, just like the Serengeti Nature Reserve in East Africa.

Or, to put it mildly, there are Indian reservations like in the United States, or "laws for the protection of indigenous habits" like those in Canada and Brazil.

Of course, the main reason is that it is impossible to clean up these small fish and shrimp in East Africa, even with the help of satellites in the 21st century, so as long as they are not integrated into modern society, it will not be a big problem, after all, the indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic Ekismos are not likely to be flooded, and they are not in a position to achieve population explosion in this kind of productive situation.

In fact, without European colonization of Africa in the previous life, the number of blacks would have maintained a certain number instead of doubling, after all, Africa is the only continent that borders Eurasia and has maintained no progress for thousands of years.

Speaking of the port of Swakopmund, the main role of its garrison navy is to prevent colonists from other countries from landing in southwest Africa, and the entire southwest Africa is more than 100 square kilometers with a population of only tens of thousands, which makes the coast of southwest Africa full of loopholes, in case an enemy lands, from here to sneak attack the interior of East Africa, it is indeed easy to catch East Africa by surprise.

So the Swakopmund Navy is to prevent people from building a stronghold on the coast of Southwest Africa, and then sending supplies inland through the coastal stronghold, so that even if they enter the hinterland of Southwest Africa, it will be a dead end.

(End of chapter)