The new claim is the Kingdom of Sennar, consisting of
al Jazira state (Sudan) 4,926,555
Sennar state (Sudan) 1,532,085
White Nile state (Sudan) 1,140,694
Blue Nile (Sudan) 832,112
Kassala state (Sudan) 1,171,118
al Qadarif state (Sudan) 1,369,300
Upper Nile state (South Sudan) 964,353
Benishangul-Gumuz region (Ethiopia) 976,000
West Welega zone (Oromia region, Ethiopia) 1,350,415
Kelam Welega zone (Oromia region, Ethiopia) 797,666
with a total population of 15, 060, 298. Apologies to Chrin for cutting through country subdivisions but I did make a map to show what this cut entails.
I've made this claim mainly because the area was one that I was considering claiming before as Sudan/the Horn of Africa is a particular interest of mine but I decided against it as it would have meant at the time that it would've been a landlocked claim with no neighbours. With Marimaia having claimed parts of Sudan though, this has created an opportunity for the claim.
Fundamentally, Sennar will have the same characteristics as Daresalam, with a wealthy governing group ruling over an impoverished country that more or less has sold out the countries resources to foreign companies and relies on ethnic/tribal patronage networks and repression in order to maintain control of the state. The history will be quite different however, as I have already discussed with Marimaia over tg to work out the details. Namely it will based off the old Sennar Sultanate that ruled over much of Sudan from the 16th to late 18th century. With the 19th century the Sultanate is already in terminal decline as various vassals to the north break off and the state more or less withers away,allowing foriegn merchants and mercenaries to move in. The Mahdist movement will feature in Sennar, taking over the region and using it as a base to expand between 1881-1898 and eventually forcing the Caliphate's hand to invade and destroy the Mahdists, creating the Sennar Wilayah.
From this point until the 1950s Sennar will act as a frontier territory of the Marimaian Caliphs. Between the 1950s and 1970s will be Sennar's long road to independence in lieu of the Great Reforms occurring in Marimaia around this point in time, with efforts initially being made to integrate Sennar fully within the Caliphate. However as a result of growing Communist/Nationalist agitation the situation turns in to a Bush war that is not deemed worth the effort, and so negotiations turn to decolonisation instead with the aim of installing a friendly conservative regime. The process with culminate with Sennar's independence under a Malik (King) and a Congo Crisis style event with an attempted takeover by Communist/Nationalist groups that is squashed with outside assistance. Beginning with the 1990s /2000s will be Sennar's economic privatisation with large grants of farmland, oil and mineral concessions granted to foriegn corporations, making the Malik and his ruling circle very wealthy but having huge social ramifications for the population that loses access to landThis would create a potentially explosive situation in the present day with rising popular discontent.
I would ideally like to keep some of the other shared history I had planned for Daresalam with Sennar. Chingiz could still gain his African mercs (and I guess Hippo) from Sennar. Also TCB, although Gandvik wouldn't play a direct colonial role anymore, I would like to keep a Gandvian Amin Pasha like figure to conquer Sennar on behalf of the Marimaians and rule it as his private domain for a few decades, maybe with the help of colonial civil servants and troops from Sumatra.
