Annexation of the west coast of Africa

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 1. ↑ Zebadiah Keto defected from the Bovido Imperium on August 1, 2036
2. ↑ Motazz Moussa led the state of Sudan in leaving the North African Federation on September 27, 2036

The **annexation of the west coast of Africa** was a military campaign launched by the North African Federation in August 2036 in order to claim the western coast of north Africa from the Bovido Imperium. The campaign lasted a month and resulted in North African victory, although President Torrent Koon was incapacitated in the process of the invasion.

Having usurped power within the North African Federation, President Torrent Koon announced a military build-up along the Bovido Imperium boarder as one of his first acts of government on July 7, 2036. On August 1, 2036, the armed forces of the North African Federation entered across the Bovido boarder over the Senegal river under the command of former president and General Abdel al-Burhan; the same day, the Moroccan region of the Bovido state of North Africa under the leadership of Governor Zebadiah Keto proclaimed it's allegiance to the North African Federation, securing the key port city of Tangier at the strait of Gibraltar for the NAF. Despite initially holding off the Federation forces in the town of R'Kiz, the armed forces of the Bovido Imperium were quickly forced into retreat along the coast, as the Federation army captured the city of Nouakchott on August 9, 2036, followed by Tiouilit on August 17th with minimal resistance. Taken aback by the concentrated invasion, Bovido Major General Michael Clod struggled to remobilise soldiers to the western coast due to concerns with a Federation invasion from elsewhere along the southern boarder; instead, on August 15th forces were withdrawn from the Mediterranean shores of the imperium and deployed to engage in a counter-offensive along the Moroccan province boarders on August 18th. On August 20, 2036 the province under the leadership of Governor Keto was formally accepted as a state of the North African Federation in a move widely condemned by the international community, and the region began to launch an invasion down into the town of Bon Lanuar as part of the unified Federation army assault.

Faced with war on two fronts as the Shanghai Pact's invasion of the Bovido Imperium's capital region re-escalated, Imperator Julios Cragen ordered the Maximo Exercitus Imperium to focus on fending off the Shanghai Pact from invading the Bovido capital, and on August 24th Bovido forces began to retreat from the region, allowing the North African Federation to capture the city of Benichab on August 30, 2036, less than a month after the beginning of the invasion. On September 1, 2036, the northern and southern armies of the Federation met in Inal and the entire west coast of Africa was *de-facto* annexed into the Federation the same day. At 5:30pm on September 2, 2036, Imperator Julios Cragen called on Koon in a televised speech to resign his office and flee, or to "face the consequences of his actions" against the Bovido Imperium. Later the same day, President Torrent Koon and Governor Zebadiah Keto attended a ceremony in the Municipal Palace to formalise the new annexation of western Africa in the city of Tangier; moments before the signing of the formal document, explosions ripped through the palace in an attack linked to the Bovido regime, destroying the ceremonial signing room in the process and killing Governor Keto, seriously injuring President Koon in the process. With Torrent Koon incapacitated, the Federation began to crumble and on September 26, 2036, regional Chairman Motazz Moussa proclaimed Sudan to be an independent region and signed into law a decree which saw Sudan secede from the North African Federation the following day. Following the secession of Sudan from the federation, the North African Federation Congress formally impeached President Torrent Koon from all of his offices and replaced him with former president Jean Bagasauo on September 28, 2036; Bagasauo appointed congress leader Lassina Zerbo as his deputy.