Egyptian Revolution

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The **Egyptian Revolution** (Arabic: **الثورة المصرية**) was a coordinated uprising conducted by the Egyptian People's Revolutionary Front (EPRF) with assistance from the Shanghai Pact against the Bovido Imperium in the region of Egypt in the Bovido state of North Africa between February 16 and August 27, 2038. The revolution took place against the backdrop of the ongoing Conquest of Africa and the collapse of the Bovido Imperium, and was consequently one of the last events of the conflict.

Following an invasion by the Empire of Bovido Has in 2018, the Arab Republic of Egypt collapsed after Bovido Has established control over the eastern bank of the Nile river, whilst the radical Egyptian Islamic Brotherhood seized control over the western bank to establish the Islamic Emirate of Egypt. After the collapse of Bovido Has in 2021, the Bovido holdings in Egypt reorganised to become the Bovido Republic of Egypt Has and joined with other remnants of Bovido Has in 2028 to form the Bovido Imperium. In 2033, the new Bovido Imperium launched an invasion of the Islamic Emirate of Egypt and fully absorbed the entire nation into its realm, which in turn sparked a war with the Fox Dynasty and its allies.

After five years of Bovido occupation, the failure of the Imperium to defeat the Shanghai Pact alliance of Libirachi allies during the Bovido-Libirachi War inspired the formation of the Egyptian People's Revolutionary Front, which sought to use the Imperium's growing weakness to liberate Egypt. The eruption of riots and militant strikes against government control centres coincided with the political collapse of the Bovido Imperium, which deposed Imperator Julios Cragen in March 2038 in a palace coup, and gained momentum when the Shanghai Pact launched a concurrent invasion of Egypt from the Sinai peninsula. In August 2038, the Bovido Imperium effectively abandoned the region to the EPRF after regional military leader Amar Sato fled the country.

In place of the Bovido government, the Egyptian People's Revolutionary Front and Shanghai Pact jointly established the Egyptian Transitional Administration to govern the country on an interim basis until the redrawing of borders and peace settlements could be achieved at the end of the conflict.

## History

### Background

With the Shanghai Pact's successful encirclement of the Bovido Imperium's capital city of Jerusalem on January 3, 2038, the Bovido armed forces began a strategic withdrawal from Jerusalem State and the Sinai peninsula lasting from January 12 until February 3, 2038, with Bovido forces maintaining a perimeter around the Suez Canal to control shipping routes through the region. With forces withdrawn from the middle east, Praefectus Amar Sato began to establish a new military centre of command in the city of Cairo in the now conquered Egyptian provinces of the nation and started a re-distribution of armed forces in northern Africa under the "Depurgo Protocol", a military order designed to purge local regions of civilians through mass executions, before extracting all items of value and destroying infrastructure to prevent NATO/Shanghai Pact forces approaching the region.

### Revolution

On February 16, 2038, a coalition of Egyptian resistance groups hijacked a television broadcast and proclaimed the formation of the Egyptian People's Revolutionary Front (EPRF) alongside footage of the Imperium Complex in Cairo city centre, which was then attacked by an explosion live on air. Following the bombing of the Imperium Complex, Praefectus Sato ordered a brutal repression to take place against the local population, with reprisals taking place against hundreds of innocent residents of major Egyptian cities between February 17th and 23rd - in response to the reprisals, the EPRF launched a secondary campaign against Bovido activities along the Suez canal, with attacks against transport ships blockading the Bovido Imperium's ability to maintain internal connections between regions of the nation. Attacks against Bovido military patrols and equipment shipments continued into the first weeks of March 2038, with a second attack on the Imperial Complex in Cairo nearly assassinating Praefectus Sato on March 18th. Following Pindorama's declaration of full autonomy on March 13th, Praefectus Sato and North African prime minister Yesu Soong travelled to Brasilia to meet with Pindoraman leader Marisa Belacqua in a political conference on March 19, 2038, leaving the region of Egypt effectively without government - on March 20, 2038, the Egyptian People's Revolutionary Front launched riots in the streets of Cairo and dozens of other major Egyptian cities as thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to bring about a regime change, managing to seize control in the central Cairo municipality after senior Bovido military commanders fled the city on March 24, 2038.

### Shanghai Pact invasion of Egypt

On March 25th, 2038, General Xu Fenlin of the Shanghai Pact ordered the launch of an invasion of the Bovido controlled regions of Egypt and formally recognised the EPRF's claim to control of the former territories of the Islamic Emirate of Egypt; on March 30th, the joint Persian, Greater Ruthenian and Russian armies began to launch assaults against the Bovido holdings at the Suez Canal, successfully managing to capture the Port Said region at the mouth of the canal by April 11, 2038. On the same day, Praefectus Amar Sato returned to Egypt after having been appointed as prime minister of North Africa just hours earlier, and began to withdraw battalions from the Libyan regions in order to quell the Egyptian rebellion, inadvertently allowing Major General Khalifa Haftar's African Liberation Army to make headway in expanding the Shanghai Pact Administrative Zone in Africa in the process. On April 29, 2038, members of the EPRF assassinated Major General Michael Clod, one of the region's highest ranked officers and a former leader of the Egyptian provinces; in response, Sato launched a repressive terror against the population of Alexandria, whereby thousands were subjected to torture and imprisonment in retribution. On May 19, 2038, a civilian uprising began in the Islamic quarter of Alexandria after a local imam was killed by Bovido security forces; the EPRF quickly joined in the conflict, and by June 6th, the city centre and administrative regions were under the control of rebellious factions. With the two major Egyptian cities under the control of the Egyptian People's Revolutionary Front, the EPRF conducted an election to nominate a leader, with the politician and economist Tarek Shawki winning election as the leader of the organisation; as the head of the EPRF, Shawki began to negotiate with the Shanghai Pact for backing against the Bovido Imperium, with the two organisations signing a joint accord to aid the overthrow of the Imperium on July 16, 2038.

### Bovido Surrender

Following months of conflict in eastern Egypt, the military forces of the Shanghai Pact arrived in the city of Cairo on July 25, 2038 and established the Egyptian Transitional Administration under the leadership of General Xu Fenlin to oversee civilian and military operations in the region. On August 13, 2038, Prime Minister Amar Sato fled northern Africa and landed in the city of Brasilia in Pindorama; with the commanding officer of the north African division of the Bovido armed forces having fled the region, the Shanghai Pact was able to secure a major propaganda victory over the Imperium, and on August 27, 2038, General Adama Sang surrendered the remaining garrison in Egypt to the Transitional Administration. By September 3, 2038, all major military bases in Egypt transferred control over to the Shanghai Pact, leaving the Egyptian Transitional Administration as the sole government of the region.