2037 North African Coup d'état

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 1. ↑ From November 27, 2036, Lassina Zerbo served as vice president in exile after joining the People's Democratic Union for Self Government

The **2037 North African Coup d'état** took place between January 12 and January 13, 2037 in the North African Federation and saw a faction of the armed forces under the leadership of General Meles Zenawi attempt to overthrow President Jean Bagasauo and his government; despite the coup's failure to overthrow Bagasauo, the armed forces were able to establish control over a large region of north-western Africa within the federation and established the Patriotic National Military Administration as a rival government to the Bagasauo regime.

Following the signing of the Banjul Treaty between the Bovido Imperium and the North African Federation on December 31, 2036, the armed forces of the North African Federation began to protest against the administration of President Jean Bagasauo, souring relations between the Bovido-loyalist government and the Koon-loyalist armed forces led by General Meles Zenawi, whilst further exacerbating the nation's ongoing political crisis. As former president Torrent Koon began to make a recovery in late December 2036, the treaty's article requiring the extradition of Koon to the Bovido Imperium helped crystallise the armed forces' opposition to the treaty and the governments which signed it. On January 1, 2036, General Zenawai issued a televised address to the nation calling upon President Bagasauo to revoke the treaty and "preserve the Federation's integrity".

On January 12, 2037, the armed forces launched a coup d'état against the government, with soldiers in many of the western parts of the federation seizing control of local institutions and forcefully dissolving them, instead installing regional military governorships. However, despite capturing the capital city of Banjul, the coup plotters failed to seize high ranking members of government, who fled to the city of Yamoussoukro and established it as the new capital for the regime. In the evening of January 12th, both President Jean Bagasauo and General Meles Zenawi made televised statements, both claiming victory in the coup; in effect, the coup had divided the federation, as the armed forces retained sole control over the western coast, whilst the government controlled the south coast and much of the inland regions.

On January 13, 2037, Meles Zenawi proclaimed himself as president of the North African Federation and established the Patriotic National Military Administration with himself as the leader, backed up by a large contingent of armed forces loyal to the military government - despite this, a sizeable remnant of the armed forces remained loyal to President Jean Bagasauo's regime, allowing the government to assert it's dominance along the Ivory Coast, at a greatly reduced capability. With the government of the state effectively crippled by the coup, the People's Democratic Union for Self Government (UDPPA) launched an uprising against Bagasauo's administration on January 13, 2037 and began to wrestle control over swaths of the inland sub-Saharan provinces from the government, formally claiming captured regions on January 24, 2037.