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This was also East Africa's modest contribution to world peace. But the bitter fruit of eased social tensions in Europe had not vanished; it had merely been transferred to Africa.

Especially in southern Africa, East Africa's massive importation of population had caused its national strength to surge sharply, bringing it into fierce competition with the other powers in southern Africa.

Relying on its population advantage, East Africa had been invincible wherever it went. This was also the fundamental reason the war had broken out: East Africa was too powerful, so the other forces had to unite and eliminate this "heretic."

If East Africa was not stopped, then every other country on the African continent would have to live beneath East Africa's breath in the future. The worst possible outcome would be the emergence of an African version of the United States.

Diredawa city, at the northern end of East Africa.

British Somaliland was one of Diredawa city's neighbors, though the two sides had rarely interacted.

It was not because the two countries were hostile toward each other, but because a vast desert lay between them. Only Arabian caravans occasionally crossed this "dangerous" region with camels, maintaining commercial trade routes that had endured for thousands of years.

But Diredawa had merely been a transit point for them on their way to the former Abyssinian Empire. Now that Diredawa city was under East African control, it had not affected them much.

Since Diredawa city had opened up, this trade route, which had been cut off for several years, had regained its former glory.

What had once been a stopping point for trade had become a fairly prosperous commercial market, where Somaliland, East Africa, the Red Sea colonies, and French Somaliland (Djibouti) converged.

Although British Somaliland was now a British colony, its