Renaissance War

== Summary. ==
The Renaissance War was a war that began in Northeastern Africa, between Egypt on one side, and Ethiopia and Sudan on the other, which lasted from July 28th to January 4th. The war would begin with Egypt invading Sudan due to them supporting Ethiopia damming up the Nile with the Renaissance dam. Ethiopia realized if Sudan fell Egypt could just airstrike their dam and destroy it, and quickly joined the war against Egypt. Egypt would lose momentum due to skilled Sudanese / Ethiopian defenses, and a revolt by the nation’s population would end the war, with a Coalition victory (the name used to describe the Coalition of Sudan and Ethiopia).
== Background. ==
=== The Renaissance Dam. ===
The Renaissance Dam is a very large dam made by Ethiopia, stationed on the Nile River. It began construction in 2011 and was completed in 2020. The Ethiopians built the dam in hopes that it would produce enough electricity to power significant portions of the country, allowing Ethiopia to have a better quality of life and more stability. However, it also heavily reduced the amount of water flowing through the Nile, especially when the Reservoir was being filled. Egypt, being highly dependent on the Nile for agriculture, protested heavily, but to no avail. In 2028, a major drought hit the Sahara, devastating much of the Great Green Wall protecting the Sahel from desertification, and devastating Egypt, who already was beginning to struggle due to less water coming from the Nile. 
=== Geopolitical Situation. ===
Ethiopia, despite multiple threats from Egypt, would refuse to demolish the dam, as the benefits of the hydroelectric power it was producing was just beginning to be felt. Concerned about Egypt, Ethiopia offered to share its energy supply with Sudan in exchange for it backing Ethiopia in the diplomatic dispute. Sudan, which was much less dependent on the Nile than Egypt was, accepted the offer. Egypt, fearing Ethiopia would manage to turn more countries against it, and with the drought rapidly turning into a famine, would begin the invasion of Sudan on July 28th.
== The War. ==
=== Initial Advances. ===
Sudan had initially believed that Egypt would attempt to demolish the Renaissance dam using air power, and had not mobilized, believing that they would merely be bystanders in the conflict, and did not mobilize sufficient reserves. However, Egypt knew they couldn’t hope to demolish the dam with the Ethiopian Air Force on high alert, and instead hoped to blitz through Sudan to get within a stones throw of the dam. Egypt, taking advantage of Sudan’s miscalculation, quickly took Wadi Halfa and Dongola on July 29th and August 8th respectively. However, Ethiopian troops were rushing into Sudan to reinforce the front, and resistance began to stiffen at Marawi. Still, Egypt was making good progress, and foreign observers believed that Sudan would eventually be overpowered by the more stable Egyptian government. (The Sudanese civil war only ended in 2027)
=== Stalemate. ===
With Ethiopian troops pouring into Sudan to assist the defense, they quickly built a new defensive line at Al-Damir. The Egyptians encountered the line on August 24th, and prepared to burst through the line in a concentrated assault, a strategy which had succeeded in the past few battles. However the Ethiopians quickly attempted to encircle the Assault, and the Egyptians were only spared disaster by a diversionary assault at Atbara. The Egyptians would continue attempting to take the line throughout September and Early October, but they could not afford delays, as the government knew that Egyptians back home opposed the war, and the food shipments that Egypt was beginning to rely on due to the drought had disappeared due to sanctions. They finally took Al-Damir on October 14th, and they now prepared to use this opportunity to quickly take the Sudanese capital.
=== Final Push. ===
The Offensive began with the Battle of Shendi, which saw the Egyptians take unexpectedly heavy casualties, as the Ethiopians had predicted the Egyptian move. Despite that, the Egyptians would successfully brute force their war through the city, and they would reach the outskirts of Khartoum on November 2nd. Fierce fighting quickly began as the Sudanese/Ethiopians made great use of the defensive urban terrain in the city. Egypt attempted to respond to this with a bombing campaign, but international backlash and threats of further sanctions forced the Egyptians to stop. Without a method of destroying the enemy through air power, the Egyptians were forced to methodically siege the city, a strategy even the most incompetent generals in the Egyptian army knew could not end well. Indeed, the frontlines in Khartoum completely stopped moving by December.
=== Collapse of Egypt. ===
Riots began to break out in the streets of Egypt throughout November, as the civilians were fiercely anti-war, and they wanted the government to focus on rebuilding Cairo from its state of disrepair. Whenever the Egyptians protested, the government shut them down brutally, further increasing distrust between the government and the people. Everything culminated in a violent revolution, named the December Revolution, since it occurred on December 21st. The Egyptian soldiers on the front were called back to defend the country from the revolution, but many of them defected to the rebel side. This also meant that Ethiopia and Sudan had won the Renaissance War, although an official peace treaty would never be signed, as the government that started the war was now collapsing.
== Aftermath. ==
=== Future of Egypt. ===
Egypt would be thrown into the Egyptian civil war, which would last all the way from December 2029 to March 2031. The war would eventually end in a Rebel victory, which would be forced to pay reparations to Ethiopia and Sudan. Despite hope that Egypt would recover and thrive with the new democratic government, problems quickly arose. Firstly, corruption and incompetence was still widespread in the country, as the people now in charge had no experience in running a country, and only knew what not to do, not what to do. The drought would also escalate into a famine, which the provisional government could do nothing about, as they were under the watchful eye of Ethiopia. The new government would quickly grow weak, and would become dependent on food imports from countries such as France, Turkey and Russia, and it was clear they were only offering assistance in order to force Egypt into becoming a puppet state, but at this point they had no other choice.
=== Future of Ethiopia/Sudan. ===
Ethiopia would become hugely successful, as the energy provided by the Renaissance dam would revolutionize the country, with massive amounts of electricity. Ethiopia would eventually join the Nairobi pact in 2039, an alliance between Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia. These countries would work together to industrialize their economies, and would become the first countries in Africa to become truly industrialized, giving them massive sway over their neighbors. Ethiopia would use this newfound power to force Somalia to give independence to Somaliland, giving them a close ally that could allow Ethiopia to export its goods. This, along with Kenyan trade agreements, would secure Ethiopia as a regional market, despite being landlocked. Sudan would benefit much less, as the war was entirely fought on their soil, and all they would get from the war were some reparations from Egypt, and some Ethiopian energy. The Sudanese government realized that they had just been a pawn in Ethiopias game, but they did not have the power to stop it, as Ethiopia would join the Nairobi pact.
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