Dominion of Polumn

The **Dominion of Polumn** was a federal nation in northern Africa which served as a satellite state of the Bovido Imperium, before ceding from the regime in 2036 as an independent state. At it's territorial peak, the Federation controlled 8,847,290 km2 (3,416,000mi2) of land in northern Africa, although it very quickly declined in size following repeated invasions in late 2036 and early 2037. Bordered by the Bovido Imperium to the north and the Federation of Ducist to the south, the North African Federation was one of the world's largest nations, although ultimately one of the least stable thanks to the usage of weakened military force holding the federation together.

Consisting of numerous wealthy colonial era coastal city regions, vast interior deserts in the form of the Sahel and Sahara, and resource rich forests to the south, the North African Federation was a political union initially comprised of African federalists and those fearing the rise of the Bovido Imperium, uniting in a similar fashion to that of the United Arab Republic in 2031. However, following the Red Wave of 2035, the nation quickly became overrun by hardliner adherents to the Final Testament led by the populist politician Jean Bagasauo, who led the nation to become a puppet and later state of the Bovido Imperium. Despite numerous assassination attempts, Bagasauo was largely successful in these efforts and High Admiral Torrent Koon (in his capacity as Vice President) became the effective de-facto leader of the region, allowing for further integration with the Bovido state of North Africa.

Following the 2036 Bovido Coup d'état and the deposition of Imperator Anton Ujung, the North African Federation became an ever closer part of High Admiral Koon's personal union of states and by the end of 2036, the region had proclaimed itself independent under the leadership of Koon, with part of the neighbouring Bovido state also joining the federation following an invasion in the autumn of 2036. However, the incapacitation of Torrent Koon in late 2036 led to the destabilisation of the nation, and in early 2037 separatist movements prompted the outbreak of civil war. Following the civil war and the signing of the Treaty of Kampala, the North African Federation was dissolved, with the southern part of the nation becoming part of the Shanghai Pact Occupied Zone in North Africa, whilst the Patriotic National Military Administration became the legal government in the northern regions, whilst the state of Southern Sahara ceded from the state altogether.

The regime was a short lived state largely born out of the Conquest of Africa and the Bovido Imperium's quest for imperialist expansion during the war; as such, it suffered from a dire lack of internal unity and indeed many regions of the federation only remained as members due to military occupation from Bovido Imperium armies under the command of Torrent Koon. With the removal of Koon from the state's affairs in late 2036, the nation promptly disintegrated into three distinct political entities.

## History

### Formation

 File:African Federation Congress.jpg  With the Conquest of Africa raging around the north of the continent, the governments of Sudan, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Ghana began to implement proposals to unify the remaining independent nations of North Africa together to defend against the Bovido Imperium, akin to the Unification of the Arab State into the United Arab Republic in 2031. On March 16, 2034 President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of Sudan announced the creation of the North African Federation, with Sudan, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad and Eritrea as member regions of the federation, whilst al-Burhan served as the initial president of the federation before alternating the presidency to the leaders of the member regions every year on April 1st. Despite this new nation being founded, it remained as a weak political power and like the United Arab Republic had done, the North African Federation struggled to integrate the militaries of the constituent nations together in an effective way, as well as suffering from political dissatisfaction and disunity among the various political factions of the federation. Subsequently, President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan began to give the military more power to control regions in the nation, resulting in an autocratic military dictatorship led by the former Sudanese military general forming, solidified by the August 19 dissolution of the Federation Congress, less than 6 months after its formation.

### Red Wave

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 File:Red Wave.png  The Red Wave, also known as the 2035 North African Federation Crisis, was a series of coups d'état within the member regions of the North African Federation taking place between February and August 2035, which saw adherents to the Final Testament raised to office as the head of regional government across the federation in the states of Chad, Nigeria, Sudan and Togo, whilst in the states of Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Mali and Sierra Leone, elected officials took office based on the promise of Christian unity, effectively giving sympathisers to the Bovido Imperium full control over the nation, before allowing the armed forces of the Imperium to take over the federation under the guise of a peace-keeping mission, transforming the federation into a satellite state of the Imperium just over a year after the nation's foundation. Beginning with the election of Jean Bagasauo to the office of Vice President of the North African Federation on February 5, 2035, a gradual slew of adherents to the Final Testament began to be elected to office across the federation, winning majorities in the state governments of Mali and Ivory Coast in late February of the same year. Likewise in the states of Eritrea and Sierra Leone in early March 2035, members of the Christian Loyalist party won majorities in all offices of state, leading to President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan calling for a state of emergency and halting elections scheduled for later in the year, leading to accusations that President al-Burhan was attempting to seize power in a self coup, and protests began to arise across the nation as citizens called for elections to be held as scheduled. Subsequently on March 29 the armed forces in Chad overthrew the Chadian House of Representatives, stating that their term in office had ended and that the armed forces would hold power until new elections were ordered by the president. With President al-Burhan's term in office due to end on April 1, 2035, Vice President Yayi Boni began to take over operations of the government in order to secure a peaceful transition, moving towards a more militant strategy to try to combat the growing wave of Bovido loyalists taking power by dissolving the remaining state assemblies and passing further powers to the executive offices of each individual state in order to try to consolidate power with the African Federalist party.

However as a result, the local armed forces in Nigeria and Togo took part in a coup d'état in their states on the night of May 3rd 2035, deposing the local governors and placing a Christian military regime in charge of the region; meanwhile in the federation capital of Khartoum, the government of President Yayi Boni began to disintegrate as Vice President Jean Bagasauo and his Christian Loyalist party began to obstruct Boni's legislative agenda, blocking a move to send federal military forces to the states under insurgent control whilst also changing rules on presidential powers through congress to allow the impeachment of a president with a simple majority of 9 out of 17 state governors on May 14th, 2035. In the aftermath of this rule change, Vice President Jean Bagasauo motioned for an impeachment bill to be launched on May 16, 2035, securing the support of 8 state governors in regions controlled by the Christian Loyalist Party, falling short by one vote. On May 17, Governor Riek Machar of Sudan was assassinated in the street by an unidentified assailant, making way for Machar's deputy Salva Kiir Mayardit to take over the leadership of the state, subsequently voting for the motion of impeachment the same day, giving way to allegations that Riek Machar's murder was politically motivated. With President Yayi Boni declared to be impeached by the council of governors on May 18, 2035, Vice President Jean Bagasauo assumed the powers of the presidency the same day; having effectively led a constitutional coup against Boni, Bagasauo dissolved the state governments of the regions and began to consolidate power to the presidency, before establishing the Presidential Council of the North African Federation on May 23, 2035 as a collective head of state with all Christian Loyalist and military governors present, temporarily making the presidency itself vacant, though Jean Bagasauo as the leader of the council continued to serve within the same capacity as *de-facto* head of state.

On June 12, 2035, President Jean Bagasauo was targeted by a bombing attack at the headquarters of the Presidential Council in Khartoum which assassinated many of the military leaders of the council but left Bagasauo himself largely unharmed. Though profusely denied at the time, the Libirachi Empire's Commission for the Preservation of the New Order was revealed to be behind the attempted assassination after the conclusion of the war when the incident was mentioned in the Imperial Ministry of Propaganda's official history of the Conquest of Africa. Ironically, in attempting to assassinate President Bagasauo, the Libirachi Empire allowed him to assert his dominance over the North African Federation following the deaths of the nation's leading military generals, who had been attempting to keep Bagasauo in check through the powers of the Presidential Council, which was immediately dissolved in the aftermath of the attempted assassination attempt. With no military leadership in the NAF, President Bagasauo turned to his allies in the Bovido Imperium and brokered an agreement for soldiers of the Imperium to act as the military forces of the federation, with High Admiral Torrent Koon taking up office as Vice President of the federation on July 14, 2035.

### Attempted Assassination of Jean Bagasauo

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 File:Jean Bagasauo speech 2035.jpg  Following the Red Wave in the summer of 2035, Jean Bagasauo had managed to place himself as the leader of the North African Federation, ruling with High Admiral Torrent Koon of the Bovido Imperium as his deputy, effectively making the region a province of the imperium through Koon's involvement. Subsequently, on November 24th, 2035 Libirachi Empress Penny Fox ordered the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order to depose Bagasauo, believing that without a local leader to head the federation, the region would never accept Bovido dominance and subsequently there would be enough domestic upheaval for the Libirachi Empire and their ally Ducist to launch an invasion from southern Africa. As such, at a speech to celebrate the NAF's alliance with the Bovido Imperium on December 16, 2035, several shots were fired at Bagasauo, hitting the president in the chest and arm before the would-be assassin was apprehended by Bovido security forces.

With President Jean Bagasauo temporarily incapacitated by the attempt on his life, Vice President Torrent Koon assumed full control over the nation in the evening of December 16th and immediately launched a televised attack on the Libirachi Empire, accusing Empress Penny Fox and Libirachi President Karyn Voor of "attacking the peace in North Africa" and blamed the failed assassination squarely on the nation's infamous COMPNOR organisation, resulting in Foreign Secretary Angelica Rivera proclaiming that the Federation's rhetoric "would lead only to war" in a speech to the assembled leaders of the Shanghai Pact at the organisation's leadership conference on December 20, 2035. Under Vice President Torrent Koon's effective reign, Bagasauo was sent into hiding with Koon governing in his name, but in January 2036 following a coup d'état in the Bovido Imperium, Bagasauo was brought back out of hiding and started to act as the figurehead leader of the regime again from January 7th, 2036.

### North African Crisis of 2036

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 File:Map of the SPAZA in 2036.png  Within a day of the signing of the Treaty of Beijing, Cardinal Justas Kolas resigned from his office as head of the Bovido government on April 14, 2036, landing a crippling blow on the regime of Imperator Julios Cragen; similarly, Prime Minister Torrent Koon of North Africa began to make manoeuvres against the imperator, publicly threatening the withdrawal of military backing for the Bovido regime if it didn't renounce the treaty. On April 20, 2036, the Shanghai Pact Administrative Zone in Africa (SPAZA) was established with *de-jure* control over the province of North Africa, with Cardinal Nicholas Azure and PM Torrent Koon tasked with overseeing the gradual transfer of territory to the SPAZA under the leadership of Commissioner Gwen Ranol. However, the Bovido Imperium armed forces under the leadership of Prime Minister Koon repeatedly defied the directives of the SPAZA and direct orders from Imperator Cragen, refusing to transfer territory from military leadership to the hands of the Shanghai Pact. Determined to pursue peace and to end the war between the Bovido Imperium and the Shanghai Pact, Imperator Julios Cragen issued a warrant for the arrest of Torrent Koon on June 17th, 2036 and tasked his security forces with hunting down the renegade military leader - at the same time, Cragen attempted to re-open negotiations with the Libirachi regime on the basis that the Treaty of Beijing could cause the disintegration of the nuclear armed state, whilst also appealing to the United Nations to reject the actions of Torrent Koon as the policy of the Bovido government. Upon hearing the news of the warrant for his arrest, Torrent Koon fled the Bovido Imperium on June 18, 2036, flying via private jet from Cairo to the North African Federation, where Koon formally held office as Vice President under the leadership of Jean Bagasauo, and brought with him a sizeable contingent of the Maximo Exercitus Imperium to join with the already existing Bovido occupation force in the North African Federation under Koon's personal control.
Upon his arrival in the North African capital of Omdurman, Torrent Koon orchestrated a constitutional coup d'état by forcing President Jean Bagasauo to resign his office on June 20, 2036, with Koon assuming the presidency on an acting basis whilst Bagasauo was forced into house arrest in the capital. Now in charge of the North African Federation, President Torrent Koon began to consolidate his position of power, enacting a purge of civilian leaders on July 7th, before launching a mass build-up of soldiers on the boarders with the Bovido Imperium in order to prevent a Bovido assault on the federation. On July 11, 2036, President Koon announced via a radio address that the nation now possessed nuclear arms which had been "liberated" from the Bovido Imperium during Koon's defection, causing widespread panic from the international community - on the same day, the United Nations, N20 and the Shanghai Pact all adopted resolutions condemning the action, whilst Libirachi President Karyn Voor announced on July 12th that the Libirachi Imperial Army was prepared to use force against the North African Federation to compel it to relinquish it's nuclear weapons and to remove Torrent Koon as head of state, citing the successes of the Invasion of Jerusalem State as evidence that the Fox Dynasty was able to exert its military influence effectively.

 File:Imperator Julios Cragen adresses the Bovido Imperium.jpg  As the crisis continued to escalate, Bovido Imperator Julios Cragen declared that the Treaty of Beijing was "null and void" on July 13, 2036 in a televised address to the Bovido public from the balcony of the Imperator's palace in Jerusalem; widely perceived as an attempt to placate hard-liners in his government, Cragen's proclamation effectively ended the peace process with the Shanghai Pact and simultaneously served to weaken his position as the Bovido imperator by acquiescing to the demands of his political opponents. The same day, Yesu Soong was appointed as prime minister of North Africa and tasked with preserving the territorial integrity of the Bovido Imperium in an attempt to restore some of the authority of Imperator Cragen; at the same time, on July 13, 2036 the armies of the Bovido Imperium were mobilised under the command of Major General Michael Clod in preparation for the creation of a second front of war against the North African Federation.

### Annexation of the African west coast

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 File:Flag of the North African Federation being raised over the city of Tangier.jpg  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 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

### Banjul Crisis

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 File:Meles Zenawi meeting.png  Following the annexation of the west coast of Africa, a terrorist attack in the newly conquered city of Tangier on September 2, 2036 left President Torrent Koon incapacitated and hospitalised in a coma, leaving the North African Federation without a leader or even a viable successor. As the nation succumbed to political factionalism and disunity, the state of Sudan formally declared it's independence on September 26, 2036 and left the federation the following day. Faced with the prospect of the nation collapsing after the loss of both it's capital city and a major economic hub, the North African Congress launched impeachment proceedings against Torrent Koon, removing him from the positions of president and vice president on September 28, 2036; the same day, the NAC appointed former president Jean Bagasauo to the presidency and congressional leader Lassina Zerbo was selected to become vice president. Despite the appointment of a new government, internal difficulties within the North African Federation continued to persist as the armed forces remained loyal to Torrent Koon, with General Meles Zenawi taking control of the army in the absence of Koon, whilst the threat of attack from the Bovido Imperium or Ducist remained a significant defence issue for the new government. On October 10, 2036, President Jean Bagasauo passed a decree condemning the annexation of north western Africa, and proposed peace talks with Imperator Julios Cragen to return the annexed provinces, alongside extraditing Torrent Koon to face Bovido justice. Within the government, the decree divided the establishment as the leadership of the armed forces sought to preserve the legacy of President Koon whilst many officials within the Christian Loyalist Party aimed to restore relations with the Imperium and ultimately aim for union between the two nations.

By October 26, 2036, the disunity in government had also manifested into popular dissatisfaction in the establishment and mass protests began to rise up across the sub-Saharan states of the Federation, with rioting groups seeking to topple the local governments imposed during the Red Wave of 2035 and cede from the union. Under the banner of the People's Democratic Union for Self Government (UDPPA), many of these groups formed a unified rebel alliance with militant leader Idriss Deby as leader and launched insurgency campaigns against regional governments; on November 24, 2036, the UDPPA met formally with delegates from the Shanghai Pact, including Persian prime minister Tamim bin Hamad, and formally signed an agreement of support between the two organisations, with the Shanghai Pact to provide resources and training to rebellious groups. On November 27, 2036, Vice President Lassina Zerbo fled the North African Federation and joined the UDPPA's branch in western Sudan, leaving the federation in a governmental crisis once more as the African Federalist Party blocked President Jean Bagasauo's attempts to remove Zerbo from office, effectively leaving the presidential succession at the hands of the UDPPA. In response, the armed forces under the leadership of Meles Zenawi began to force President Bagasauo to take an ever harder line against secessionist groups, whilst hindering efforts by Bagasauo to enter into peace negotiations with the Bovido Imperium. Bilateral talks between the Imperium and the North African Federation formally opened on December 16, 2036, with Bovido Prime Minister Yesu Soong traveling to the capital Banjul on December 25-30 to take part in one-on-one negotiations with President Jean Bagasauo; on December 31, 2036, both parties announced the Banjul Treaty, which formally conceded the annexed portions of north west Africa back to the Bovido Imperium and pledged to extradite former president Torrent Koon in exchange for an end to the hostilities between the two nations and a re-opening of trade between the two countries.

### 2037 North African Coup d'état

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 File:Meles Zenawi inaguration.png  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 even further 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. 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.

### Civil War

 File:North African Civil War.jpg  Following months of civil unrest and turmoil during the Banjul Crisis and subsequent coup d'état in early 2037, the political tensions within the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation began to expand as the government of President Jean Bagasauo struggled to exert itself following the establishment of the Patriotic National Military Administration, with General Meles Zenawi establishing his own rival government within the north western coastal provinces of the nation. With the government of the state effectively crippled by the January 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; on January 24, 2037, UDPPA leader Idriss Deby proclaimed the creation of the Free Republic of Southern Sahara within the group's captured territories, with Deby serving as president whilst North African vice president in-exile Lassina Zerbo was appointed as vice president and the minister for federal dissolution, owing to his unique position within the North African Federation's government. With the declaration of the formation of Southern Sahara, President Jean Bagasauo of the North African Federation declared a state of emergency within the nation the same evening and ordered the boarders of the nation to be shut in a wide reaching speech broadcast across the country; in response to the broadcast, Empress Penny Fox of the Fox Dynasty delivered a rival speech on January 25, 2037 to the United Nations General Assembly in which she called upon the nations of the world to include Jean Bagasauo on their lists of international criminals and threatened to launch a full scale invasion of the nation if it did not surrender.

With a state of emergency taking place within the North African Federation, President Jean Bagasauo launched an assault against the rebel forces of the UDPPA on January 27, 2037 and attempted to drive the armed forces into the Laos capital region of Southern Sahara; however, upon the armed forces' arrival within the city's outskirts on January 28th, the UDPPA was able to engage the armed forces in active conflict and managed to force the forces into retreat to the city of Lomé by February 16th, with Southern Sahara expanding it's territory further into the North African Federation. On February 20, 2037, the Patriotic National Military Administration under the leadership of President Meles Zenawi launched an attack on the city of Koumbia from the north, leaving the government of President Bagasauo under assault from two fronts, and the PNMA was able to capture the region by March 19, 2037 after the regional garrison surrendered. With the PNMA making successes in the north and the UDPPA having success in the east, the two factions signed a mutual cooperation treaty on March 20, 2037, with the intention of recognising Meles Zenawi's claim to the presidency of the federation in exchange for Zenawi's PNMA recognising the right for the UDPPA to form the nation of Southern Sahara under Idriss Deby's leadership. Within the Patriotic National Military Administration, former president Torrent Koon assumed office as deputy of the regime after fully regaining consciousness on March 29th, 2037, following an assault on his life in September 2036.

Following weeks of negotiations, on March 21, 2037, the Free Republic of Southern Sahara was admitted to the Shanghai Pact; the same day, General Secretary Geena Kulmuni, Saharan President Idriss Deby and Ducistian President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a tripartite pact to launch an invasion against the North African Federation by stationing Ducistian soldiers within Saharan borders and launching a joint strike forces against the North African government. On April 1, 2037, the 9th Ducistian National Army launched from the city of Lomé and launched an assault into the North African Federation, quickly sweeping through the inland of the federation to reach and capture the city of Kumasi by May 1, 2037. On May 6th, the joint Ducist-Saharan armies began a renewed assault forwards, and managed to press forwards into Ahafo state, encountering minimal resistance from the North African Federation's armed forces, before launching an assault on the region of Lacs on May 29th. With the region surrounding the capital city of Yamoussoukro now under the threat of a Shanghai Pact occupation, on June 25, 2037 North African president Jean Bagasauo offered a peace summit with the Shanghai Pact with the ambition of ending the conflict; however, in an interview with Libirachi media network BLTV the following day, Shanghai Pact general secretary Geena Kulmuni rejected any attempts at a peace process, claiming that the "Shanghai Pact [was] now in with a decisive chance of winning the conflict".

In direct retribution for President Bagasauo's attempt at a peace summit, Imperator Julios Cragen of the Bovido Imperium proclaimed the beginning of a "holy rectification operation" with the intention of toppling Bagasauo's regime and installing a new puppet leader before the Shanghai Pact could capture the city of Yamoussoukro; however, political realities during the ongoing Siege of Jerusalem meant that the Imperium's forces remained deeply overstretched in western Asia and the middle east, resulting in a Bovido stealth conflict instead being waged, with technological attacks and assassination plots against President Jean Bagasauo becoming increasingly frequent from July 2037 onwards. Similarly unable to mount forces to invade the Patriotic National Military Administration, the Bovido Imperium instead launched a barrage of missiles against the PNMA from July 1, 2037, with regular missile strikes on key regions in the PNMA taking place almost daily for the rest of the conflict. On July 13, 2037, the armed forces of the Bovido Imperium managed to down a military plane carrying PNMA deputy leader Torrent Koon in a targeted attack widely interpreted as retribution for Koon's brief dictatorship in North Africa and his invasion of the Bovido Imperium.

In the aftermath of the death of Torrent Koon, PNMA leader Meles Zenawi agreed to join the Shanghai Pact invasion of Yamoussoukro, and on July 16, 2037, the tripartite pact of Ducist, Southern Sahara and the PNMA launched a joint invasion of the North African capital city; with much of the armed forces of the North African Federation having defected to form the Patriotic National Military Administration in January 2037, the government of President Jean Bagasauo found itself unable to defend the city, and on July 24, 2037 President Bagasauo agreed to a full armistice, with the pledge to sign a full surrender agreement following negotiations after the armistice took effect the following day. On August 1, 2037, a conference was held in Canto Haven with President Karyn Voor, President Cyril Ramaphosa, President Hassen Ahmed and Governor Vanessa de Rouge of the Fox Dynasty, Ducist, Persia and Canto Haven respectively in attendance, with the purpose of outlining proposals for the now effectively surrendered North African Federation. Lasting between August 1 and August 11, 2037, the Kampala Conference saw the four main Shanghai Pact allies and the North African government sign the Treaty of Kampala, which formally ended the conflict and saw President Jean Bagasauo resign from office to be extradited to the Fox Dynasty to face trial under protection from the Bovido Imperium, whilst *de-jure* North African vice president Lassina Zerbo would assume the presidency for two months, before in turn handing the presidency to PNMA leader Meles Zenawi; under the auspices of the treaty, the federation would formally be dissolved and replaced with a Shanghai Pact military occupation in the south, whilst the PNMA would remain in control of the north, and both halves of the nation would share the same president with different military leaders for the regions. Similarly, under the treaty, the boarder between North Africa and Southern Sahara would become formally fixed at the final boarders before the Shanghai Pact joint invasion of the North African Federation.

## Leadership

### Presidency

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 File:President of the North African Federation.png  The **President of the North African Federation** was the head of state for the North African Federation, and the highest elected office within the nation. The officeholder was also simultaneously commander-in-chief of the North African Armed Forces. Formed in March 2034, the office of president of the North African Federation was indirectly elected, with elections instead taking place for the office of vice president, who ascended to the presidency at the end of the incumbent president's one year term. Unique among nations, the system was designed to prevent incumbents from serving for consecutive terms, although no lifetime term limit is imposed upon individuals. Similarly, in the case of intra-term presidential vacancies, such as the death, resignation or impeachment of an incumbent, the vice president assumed the office effective immediately. Due to the rushed nature of the drafting of the North African constitution, the law was vague on what followed and whether or not the vice president retained their other titles and whether terms refresh or continue when a new individual assumes the office. With the impeachment of President Yayi Boni in 2035, Jean Bagasauo assumed office and claimed a mandate to complete the remaining 11 months of President Boni's presidency, before completing his own elected presidency.

Whilst remaining *de-jure* powerful, following the Khartoum Treaty and the appointment of Torrent Koon as vice president in late 2035, the role of president was reduced to that of a figurehead as the Bovido Imperium occupying forces under Koon's leadership held all real power within the nation. Following the attempted assassination of President Jean Bagasauo in December 2035, Koon assumed all *de-facto* responsibilities of the presidency, although after orchestrating the Bovido Imperium Coup d'état in January 2036, Bagasauo returned to the centre-stage to act as a figurehead once more. After the signing of the Treaty of Beijing and the north African crisis in summer 2036, Koon defected from the Bovido Imperium and assumed the presidency of the North African Federation. The longest serving president was Jean Bagasauo who first served for 1 year and 33 days between May 18, 2035 and June 20, 2036, and has been serving a second term in office since September 28, 2036. From June 20 until September 28, 2036, former Bovido Imperium prime minister Torrent Koon usurped the office of president from Jean Bagasauo and ran the nation as a military dictatorship. From January 13, 2037 until August 11, 2037, Meles Zenawi also claimed the presidency.

#### Living Former Presidents

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## See Also

* Bovido Imperium
* United Arab Republic

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