Kivu (1983: Doomsday)

The Republic of Kivu (French: République du Kivu, Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kivu) is a nation located in Eastern Africa. It is a presidential dictatorship led by President Joseph Kabila. Kivu is bordered by to the south,  and Rwanda to the east.

Pre-Doomsday
Laurent Kabila had been defeated by Mobutu's army in the of 1960-1966, and had been forced to flee to East Africa (where he had gained large amounts of money and power). However, earlier, Kabila had been very close to taking power on Congo.

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Doomsday
Africa was not hit by nuclear weapons; however, any foreign aid in the in the African crisis ceased.

Post-Doomsday
The cease of aid to Mobutu's Zaire caused Kabila to believe he had another chance at taking power on Congo, and he soon moved back to the region of Kivu, where his son Joseph lived. He formed a small militia and soon took over the Kivuan government, where he left his son Joseph (aged 14) in charge, and in late July he marched west attempting to take over Kinshasa.

The war west, however, had been extremely inconclusive, with bloody stalemates between the newly-formed pro-Kabila militia and the Zaire army occurring oftentimes and being extremely bloody.

Foreign aid from Rwanda and Buganda tentatively begun in 1986. However, by then the Zaire regime was already collapsing, and none of the two armies was strong enough to either gain an advantage over the other party or establish control in Kinshasa. With Katanga declaring its independence once again and several states falling under the control of independent warlords and petty militias. Kabila was then recalled to Kivu by Joseph Kabila, and, realizing that Zaire was collapsing, declared the independence of the Republic of Kivu.

First years and immigration crisis
The Kabila dictatorship soon lost large parts of Kivu's territory (all of OTL's province of North Kivu, most of Maniema and parts of South Kivu) due to the huge amounts of losses in the militia, which impeded it from protecting Kivu's claimed boundaries. This was further worsened by the refugee crisis of Tutsis from Rwanda and Hutus from Burundi. Although this was partially slowed by the huge amounts of wildlife in the national parks near the borders and the native people's fear for the creatures of the Ruzisi river and the Tanganika and Kivu lakes, huge amounts of immigrants, once again, made Kivu lose land around the Kivu-Burundi border, where only Bukavu remained in Kivu's control (even then, Bukavu lost its capital status to Fizi).