The war on the Pirate Coast was merely a minor episode for East Africa. Although the East African Army had performed poorly, that outcome had also been within the East African government's expectations.
Since the South African War, the East African Army had gone nearly twenty years without fighting another war. Moreover, this was desert warfare across nearly a hundred thousand square kilometers of land. Trying to bring the situation under control with only a few thousand men had never been realistic.
In fact, East Africa had ultimately stabilized the local situation through its old method: migration. It relocated nearly two thousand people from the Somalia region, paired them with more than ten thousand Far Eastern immigrants, and only then rebuilt its governing framework in the Northern Bay Territory. These immigrants also helped sustain stable supplies during the latter stages of the war.
The main point was to replace the oases, villages, and water sources formerly controlled by the natives. Water sources were the most critical issue. Before East Africa cleared out the local native population, the natives would rack their brains for every possible means of aiding the guerrillas, including poisoning the East African Army's water supplies.
This had forced the East African Army in the early stages to station troops at wells and other water sources. Once the residents had been replaced with their own people, however, East Africa's control over the area accelerated dramatically.
As for the original native residents, they naturally suffered the East African government's retaliation. They were either eliminated alongside the resistance organizations or driven from their homes and forced to blend into other countries and regions.
East Africa's war of conquest against the Pirate Coast could be said to have let the British breathe a sigh of relief. Despite its advantage in weapons