Armed Forces of North Africa

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The **Armed Forces of North Africa** (**AFNA**), sometimes known as the **Defence and Security Forces of North Africa** (**DSFNA**), are the combined defence and security forces of North Africa, consisting of the North African military, navy, air forces, security forces, and various semi-integrated militia groups.

Overall command of the armed forces is vested in the president in their position as commander-in-chief. Day-to-day control of the armed forces is given to the chief of the defence staff, who is the most senior soldier in the armed forces, whilst the defence secretary has political control over the organisation as a deputy to the president. Whilst the three offices are separate, on several occasions the have been held concurrently by senior military figures in control over both the government and the armed forces.

The armament of the North African armed forces varies between eastern and western suppliers through weapons deliveries by several countries, led by the United States, the Fox Dynasty, Persia, Ducist, Isgardia, and Britain. Many of the equipment is manufactured locally at factories across North Africa, though the turmoil of the North African Civil War and the subsequent redrawing of borders with the Treaties of Kampala and Jerusalem have disrupted manufacturing.

From January 2037, the armed forces of North Africa have operated the Patriotic National Military Administration (PNMA) as a military occupation government in the northern provinces of the country; since September 2037, the PNMA has been an integrated and integral part of the North African state under the North African Authority.

## History

### Formation

Prior to the formation of the North African Federation in 2034, the region of northern Africa was controlled by a series of individual states, each with their own armed forces and political structures. However, the emergence of the Bovido Imperium as a serious threat to national sovereignty at the start of the 2030s prompted a wave of unification movements across the north of the continent, which led to the formation of the United Arab Republic by Islamic states along the Mediterranean and northern Atlantic coasts in 2030. The states of sub-Saharan Africa followed suit, and in March 2034 sixteen states united to form the North African Federation, which was initially intended to be a loose federation with strong state-level governments and a weak federal government. Under the initial terms of federation laid out in March 2034, the former national armed forces of the now constituent states were absorbed as semi-autonomous components of a federation-wide armed forces, sharing resources, strategies, and intelligence, but otherwise retaining their independence and loyalty to state governments. Consequently, the initial armed forces of North Africa had sixty four separate branches under sixteen separate command chains, loosely connected by a shared defence staff chaired by Field Marshal Gilbert Diendéré.

Within months of the first presidential election and the inauguration of Abdel Fattah al-Burhan as president in April 2034, the governing African Federalist Party sought to radically rewrite the North African constitution to centralise significant amounts of power with the federal government. As part of this drive, the sixty four armed forces branches were unified into four main branches on September 17, 2034 to establish the Ground Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Presidential Guard. The new unified armed forces branches continued to act on a federal model, with each state having their own division of armed forces, but now under a single command chain with the president and chief of the defence staff able to exert more control over the armed forces.

### Crisis of the North African Federation

 Main articles: Red Wave and Attempted Assassination of Jean Bagasauo
Following Christian Loyalist Party leader and Bovido sympathiser Jean Bagasauo's victory in the 2035 presidential election, armed militia groups loyal to the CLP and Bagasauo began launching insurrections and rebellions across several southern states in the country as part of a coordinated effort to overthrow the government of President Yayi Boni to install Bagasauo as president before the start of his elected term. CLP militia groups coordinated takeovers of state governments through violent coups d'état, whilst Bagasauo's allies in the Congress of North Africa amended the constitution to allow for the removal of the president with the support of state leadership; the subsequent campaign of assassinations against regional leaders gave Bagasauo the power to remove Boni from office, and in May 2035, Bagasauo was installed as president. Within days of taking office, Bagasauo transferred the presidency to a council of senior military leaders, with himself at the head. On June 20, 2035, an assassination attempt against Bagasauo resulted in the deaths of most members of the presidential council, including senior military leadership, resulting in the comparatively junior officer Brahim Ghali being appointed as chief of the defence staff and defence secretary.

The deaths of several senior military figures during the assassination attempt on President Jean Bagasauo severely crippled the North African armed forces and reduced the organisation's ability to coordinate. As such, Jean Bagasauo negotiated an agreement with the Bovido Imperium to provide security and armed forces for the federation in exchange for Bovido military leader Torrent Koon being appointed as vice president and the payment of all costs incurred to the Bovido armed forces. Whilst the Bovido government gained only limited direct political control through the exchange, Koon's placement as vice president and the presence of the Bovido armed in North Africa allowed Imperator Anton Ujung to act as the *de-facto* leader of the country, both by influence and the cooperation of President Bagasauo.

### The Hundred Days Regime

 Main articles: 2036 North African Federation Crisis and Annexation of the west coast of Africa
In January 2036, senior political figures in the Bovido Imperium deposed Imperator Anton Ujung for his role in the ongoing unpopular war with the Shanghai Pact; despite Torrent Koon's participation in the coup, the deposition of Ujung weakened Koon's standing within the Bovido regime after newly crowned imperator Julios Cragen sought to begin a peace process with the Shanghai Pact. Following the signing of the Treaty of Beijing in April 2036, Koon refused to participate in the transfer of lands to the Shanghai Pact and fled the country to the North African Federation alongside a contingent of soldiers and an array of weaponry, including nuclear bombs. On June 20, 2036, Koon conducted a coup d'état and forced the Bovido sympathising president Jean Bagasauo to resign in order to assume the presidency himself via constitutional succession from the vice presidency. The announcement of the North African government's ownership of nuclear weaponry sparked an international crisis, and indirectly prompted Imperator Cragen to withdraw from the ongoing peace process. Having seized control of the North African Federation, President Torrent Koon appointed himself as head of the armed forces and began amassing the NAF armed forces in preparation for an invasion of the Bovido Imperium; on August 1, 2036, Koon launched the invasion and occupied a significant portion of the western coast of northern Africa. On September 2, 2036, President Koon was incapacitated by a suicide bombing during a ceremony to bring the occupied territories into the federation; with Koon having occupied both the presidency and the vice presidency, no constitutional order of succession existed and subsequently the Congress of North Africa voted to impeach Koon and restore Jean Bagasauo to the presidency on September 28, 2036.

### North African Civil War

 Main articles: Banjul Crisis, 2037 North African Coup d'état and North African Civil War
Following Torrent Koon's removal from office in September 2036, General Meles Zenawi was appointed as head of the armed forces by President Jean Bagasauo. After reassuming the presidency, Bagasauo sought to repair relationships with the Bovido Imperium and return occupied lands, but faced significant opposition from Zenawi and the armed forces, who sought to preserve Koon's legacy. In October 2036, the People's Democratic Union for Self Government (UDPPA) launched a rebellion against the government, forcing the armed forces to defend Bagasauo's government; however in January 2037, General Meles Zenawi attempted a coup against President Bagasauo, but failed to gain full control over the federation. Subsequently, the country fell into civil war as the federation became split between the UDPPA, the government, and the armed forces. In August 2037, the Shanghai Pact negotiated a peace settlement between the three sides; under the terms of the agreement, the North African Federation was dissolved, the Free Republic of Southern Sahara was established out of the former federation's eastern provinces, and General Meles Zenawi was appointed as president of the new North African Authority set up to govern both the armed forces occupation zone and the Shanghai Pact occupation zone of the country.

## Leadership

### Commander-in-Chief

 Main article: President of North Africa
The **Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of North Africa** is the most senior position within the armed forces and is constitutionally granted to the President of North Africa in their capacity as the head of state. The commander-in-chief is able to mobilise the armed forces at will and can sign decrees to proclaim the enactment of martial law. As a theoretically civilian position. the commander-in-chief is expected to delegate most military related affairs to the chief of the defence staff and the defence secretary, but has the final say on any military affairs and is required to sign off on non-routine military deployments.

\*as of January 1, 2039

### Chief of the Defence Staff

 Main article: Defence Secretary (North Africa)
The **Chief of the Defence Staff** is the most senior uniformed position within the armed forces of North Africa and is in charge of the day-to-day operations of the North African armed forces. The office was established on March 16, 2034 alongside the creation of the combined armed forces, and continued to exist following the dissolution of the North African Federation into a semi-unitary state. However, whilst the position has remained intact since its founding, the role and responsibilities of the office have changed drastically; initially, the office was conceived as a first among equals at the head of a panel of senior military leaders from across the federation. However, as the governments of Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Yayi Boni centralised power away from the states, the role of the chief of the defence staff was expanded to become the overall military head of the armed forces after the various state-level armed forces were united into federation-wide organisations.

The holder of the office of chief of the defence staff is appointed directly by the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, who is simultaneously the president, for a non-renewable term of four years. However, whilst the president may appoint a chief of the defence staff, they cannot remove the incumbent from office without the support of the Congress of North Africa. During the North African Civil War, the armed forces was in direct rebellion to the government, and the Bagasauo administration refused to recognise Meles Zenawi as chief of the defence staff.

\* as of January 1, 2039

## Branches

There are six main components to the armed forces of North Africa, split between two different government ministries. The Ground Army, Navy, and Air Force are responsible to the Ministry of Defence, whilst the Presidential Guard, Republican Security Force, and National Militia are components of the Ministry of Home Affairs. However, whilst the branches are operated by different government ministries, they share notable institutions, such as the defence staff forum of branch leaders and the Central Military Command, which is the formal high command of all armed forces under the North African government. Between 2034 and 2038, the sole power to establish and abolish branches of the armed forces resided with the president, in their simultaneous constitutional role as commander-in-chief; however, under the 2038 constitution and all subsequent revisions, the Congress of North Africa alone possesses the power to change the structure of the armed forces.

## See Also

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