Horn of Africa War

The Horn of Africa War is a conflict between the nations of East Africa and the North African Caliphate that occurred between 2023 and 2024. 
==History==
===Outbreak===
The war began when Muslim Somali separatists in the eastern Ethiopian region of Ogaden tried to break away from Ethiopian rule and Addis Ababa sent the Ethiopian Army to suppress them. The war eventually pitted Ethiopia and the East African Federation against the North African Caliphate and its Somali allies.
===In the Balance===
The war raged for months with the NAC generally having the upper hand. The NAC threatened Ethiopia's very existence launching assaults on both the Grand Renaissance Dam, which supplied more than 70% of Ethiopia's electricity, and the western and southern outskirts of the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. Ethiopia instituted conscription. The EAF fought both both Somalia proper and Muslim insurgents in its own territory. Jihadists launched terrorist attacks on most of the EAF's biggest cities and at one point seized the island of Zanzibar before EAF naval infantry dislodged them.
The EAF and Ethiopia threatened to use the Nile leverage, cutting off the flow of the White Nile and the Blue Nile respectively to Egypt-Sudan if Cajro threatened their independence. Restricting the Nile River would destroy the North African Caliphate economically. However, fear of NAC nuclear weapons prevented the East African nations from using the Nile leverage before the two sides eventually agreed to a ceasefire.
===Conclusion===
The Treat of Beijing ended the war. The newly formed Somali Confederation united Somalia and Somaliland and annexed Djibouti, the predominantly Muslim Ethiopian regions of Ogaden and Afar, and an eastern strip of the EAF state of Kenya near the former Somali border. The NAC annexed the Upper Nile region of the EAF state of South Sudan. The NAC gained control over the Grand Renaissance Dam although the electricity was split evenly between Cairo and Addis Ababa. All sides agreed to various demilitarized zones along the new borders.
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