List of Leaders of North Africa

Since the formation of the state of North Africa in March 2034, there have been 6 individuals to have been **leader** of the country, across 9 separate terms.

Between March 2034 and September 2037, the country was governed by the North African Federation, a federated union between sixteen previously sovereign states in sub-Saharan Africa. As a presidential republic, the head of state was the President of the North African Federation and was deputised by the Vice President of the North African Federation. Following a coup d'état in spring 2035, the executive power of the federation was briefly transferred to the Presidential Council of the North African Federation for 20 days, before returning to the presidency. After an attempted assassination attempt against president Jean Bagasauo in December 2035, vice president Torrent Koon took *de-facto* control over the country until he assumed the presidency in June 2036. During the North African Civil War, commander Meles Zenawi of the Patriotic National Military Administration was the *de-facto* leader of the country.

Since September 2037, the country has been governed by the transitional North African Authority, which like its predecessor is a federated union, but between two separately governed military occupation zones controlled by the Patriotic National Military Administration and the Shanghai Pact Occupation Zone in North Africa. Under the NAA, executive authority is jointly shared between a president and the leaders of the two occupation zones.

At a combined total of 1 year, 351 days, as well as 20 days as leader of the presidential council, Jean Bagasauo's three terms as leader of North Africa is the longest on record, as well as the record holder for the most terms as leader. Contrastingly, Yayi Boni's 47 days as president in 2035 is the shortest on record; Boni also was the first leader to be removed from office forcefully, as well as the first to take part in a peaceful transition of power. Of the nine transitions between leaders, only six took place following constitutional procedure (and only one through scheduled election), whilst the remainder took place through coups d'état or informal transitions.

## Titles Used

Since the formation of the state in 2034, the leader of North Africa has always been a republican figure; between May and June 2035, the position of head of state and leader was shared collectively between members of the presidential council. From January 2037 and April 2034 respectively, the Patriotic National Military Administration (PNMA) and the Shanghai Pact Occupation Zone in North Africa (SPOZNA) and their leaders held significant *de-facto* control over the country. From September 2037, the federal leaders of the PNMA and the SPOZNA were included as part of a governing troika with the president of the North African Authority.

* President of the North African Federation (2034 - 2035; 2035 - 2037)
* Presidential Council of the North African Federation (2035)
* Commander of the Patriotic National Military Administration (2037 - *Present*)
* Governor of the Shanghai Pact Occupation Zone (2037 - *Present*)
* President of the North African Authority (2037 - *Present*)

## List of Leaders

### North African Federation (2034 - 2037)

During the late 2020s and early 2030s, the expansion of the Bovido Imperium throughout northern Africa prompted a group of African nations in the Sahel and sub-Saharan region to join together in a federation, known as the North African Federation, on March 16, 2034. Under the initial leadership of Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the African Federalist Party, the federation established a strong central government and empowered many regional tyrants by legitimising their rule under a new constitution. Internal divisions and an disorganised electoral system allowed opposition parties to grow in strength, resulting in a gradual coup d'état against the federation's constitution in the spring of 2035 led by Jean Bagasauo and the Christian Loyalist Party. Under Bagasauo and the CLP, the North African Federation aligned itself with the Bovido Imperium and allowed the Bovido armed forces to assume *de-facto* control over the country; in June 2036, the federation's Bovido representative Torrent Koon conducted a coup against Bagasauo and initiated a war with the Imperium over personal political agreements with the Bovido government. Koon's rule would prove to be short lived and Bagasauo was restored to power after one hundred days after Koon was incapacitated during the war. After a botched coup led by General Meles Zenawi in January 2037 failed to consolidate control over the whole country, the federation collapsed into a multifactional civil war until the signing of the Shanghai Pact-brokered Treaty of Kampala, which dissolved the federation, allowed for the secession of Southern Sahara, and placed the country under a federated transitional government.

### North African Authority (2037 -)

Following the signing of the Treaty of Kampala on August 11, 2037, the North African Federation was dissolved on September 1, 2037 and replaced with the North African Authority. As part of the transition, president Jean Bagasauo resigned from office to allow Lassina Zerbo to take office on a temporary basis to oversee the dissolution of the federation. Under the treaty, Zerbo, as a member of the secessionist People's Democratic Union for Self Government, would be required to resign after two months in office after ensuring the separation of North Africa and the Free Republic of Southern Sahara. In the aftermath of the 2037 North African Coup d'état, the north of the country had fallen under the control of the Patriotic National Military Administration (PNMA), whilst following the North African Civil War and the Treaty of Kampala, the south of the country was controlled *de-facto* by the Shanghai Pact Occupation Zone in North Africa (SPOZNA); due to the mutual distrust between the two groups, the North African Authority was structured in a federal style, with the sixteen states of the North African Federation being replaced with the PNMA and SPOZNA as constituent states, whilst a weak presidency was established to coordinate between the two groups.

\*as of January 1, 2039

## See Also

* North Africa
* President of North Africa
* North African Federation
* North African Authority
* North African Civil War