Mombasa Republic

The Mombasa Republic is a proposed state that encompasses the Coast Province of Kenya. The Mombasa Republican Council in the main organisation to raise claims that Mombasa should secede from Kenya to become an independent state. They argued that secession would liberate the people of the coast province from marginalization by the successive governments in Kenya. The slogan they are using is Pwani Si Kenya ("The Coast is not Kenya").[1][2][3]

Flag of Mombasa

History

The Mombasa Republican Council was formed in 1999 to address perceived political and economic discrimination against the people of the coast province.[4] The group traces its secession claims to the 1895 and 1963 agreements transferring the ten-mile strip of land along the coast to Kenya's Government from Zanzibar. Some critics characterize these British agreements as a form of bribery designed to facilitate colonization of the interior. The group contests these agreements as invalid because the British Government enacted them without the consent of coastal stakeholders claiming that the state of Kenya has failed to honor the provisions designed to protect the coastal population.[5]

References

  1. "allAfrica.com: Kenya: Mombasa Republican Council - Liberators or Nascent Radical Fanatics?". allafrica.com. June 27, 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-05-31. Retrieved 2016-07-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Luc Torres. "The separatist map of Africa: interactive". the Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  4. "Kenya's Mombasa Republican Council : The Coast calls for freedom [501811752] | African news, analysis and opinion – The Africa Report.com". theafricareport.com. May 17, 2012. Archived from the original on July 2, 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012. political and economic discrimination
  5. Goldsmith, Paul (November 2011). "Microsoft Word - 11-11-17 MRC Conflict Assessment Report - Final - MRC_Conflict_Assessment_Threats_and_Opportunities_for_Engagement.pdf" (PDF). kecosce.org. Retrieved 26 July 2012. independent demographi
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