Central African Republic (Axis vs Allies: Revolutions Map Game)

Over view
The Central African Republic (the C.A.R.) is a landlocked country located in the very centre of Africa.

The local Bantu, Chadic and Sudanic people over-run most of the Pigmys in circa 900- 1000AD. The CAR then became part of  the French colonie of Equitorial Arica and then the seperate colonies of Ubangui Chari. It gained indipendence in 1960.

The south is rainforested, the north is savana and the rest is rainforest and wetter types of grassland. Most transport is done useing the few aircraft avalible and minor ferry boats on the River Congo.

It is agrarian by naure the economy is based on minor subsistance agriculture, but has diamonds, gold, iron, wood, cotton and bananas. The crops grown are mostly for subsistence level they make littel profit. However, cotton and timber industries and diamond mining has the potential of becoming a very lucrative business.

Political instabilaty and coruption would plague the country as would malaria and dengue feaver. A series of droughts have often put the population in risk of starvation.

History
Basse-Kotto and Sangha-Mbaéré were damaged in an abortive attack by Zaïre in 1974.5. The repair work took a year to do.

Mobaye, Bimbo and Kouango, Bangui, Nola and Bambari become more defensively prepared by the army and localised militiamen in 1975 and 1975.5.

The police set up defensive barriers and check points across Bangui, Birao, Bankora and Bambari in 1975.5.

Tax evaders and tribal rebels occurred in Haut-Mbomou and Vakaga prefectures in 1975.5. The police were on the lookout for northern tribal rebels and tax evaders in Vakaga prefecture. Some tribal issues had arisen with Nilo-Saharan tribes on the border of Sudan, when they started refusing to pay their taxes in 1975.5. and 1976. Mobaye, Bimbo and Kouango, Birao, Bangui, Nola and Bambari become more defensively prepared by the police 1975.5 and 1976.

The towns of Bingo, Bimbo, Birao and Bangui had some anti-corruption rallies and riots, but the few in the capital, Bangui are then crushed in 1976. The president ordered a crackdown on the rebels and had 16 northern tax evaders was shot out of hand. In a radio speech he blamed the French government for stabbing him in the back and tells the nation it was he and he alone that planned allthe mining stuff! Former president David Dacko and General André-Dieudonné Kolingba united against the government in a unholy alliance on the streets of Bimbo as violent clashes occur in the town.

Former president David Dacko and General André-Dieudonné Kolingba were still united against the government in a unholy alliance on the streets of Bimbo as violent clashes occurred later in the town. David Dacko declared himself president, as Bambari fell to the rebels. The president hide in his fortified palace as rioters and police clashed in Nola and Bangui. The Ministry of Finance have driven of some looters and gangsters outside it, who tried to hijack a rebel rally. The towns of Bingo, Bimbo, Birao, Bankora and Paoua also had some lesser anti-corruption rallies and rioting.

David Dacko became de facto president in 1976.5. Also see this- Presidents of the Central African Republic (Axis vs Allies: Revolutions Map Game).

President David Dacko like and thus agrees to the Japanese trade and atomic Bossaka era deals in 1977. Jean-Bédel Bokassa is ill with flue in Nola. Propaganda is issued to the people of the Gbaya tribe in nearby parts of Cameroon and a couple of Chadian border villages gently reminding of their cultural kinship with the Gbaya of the CAR after 1978.

A small steel mill and furnace open in Bangui in 1978.

Ex-president Jean-Bédel Bokassa is found by police and put under house arest in his Nola residence.

A trade and defence alliance called the Central African Community was set up. Ambassadors were invited from Sao Tome and Principe, Nigeria, Cameroon, T’Chad, Sudan, Equatorial Guinean, Burundi and Togo (Equatorial Guinea already has a bilateral trade deal and has morally already joined the economical wing). Sao Tome and Principe takes both, Chad goes economic and Cameroon goes defence alliance

A bus strike occured over pay and a series of bad bush fires near Bira are quickly dealt with. Nuclear bombs are banned in the CAR. The CAR sets up a wild life reserve near Nola.

A diplomatic mission goes to the big West African state (that covers OTL Niger, Mali and so on), called the West African Republic, that used to be French West Africa and to Botswana to start diplomatic relations in 1978. The W.A.R. quickly agrees, but Botswana declined the offer.

It was raised in the Organization of African Unity in 1978.5 that Korea was sniffing around North Africa and tried to subvert Egypt, Libya-Tunisia, Sudan and Algeria 6 months earlyer. The CAR was scaired since it is weak, due to low population and then still poor development. A request is set forth that Korea cant't be let go beyond Egypt or face trade sanctions! If any other African nation is attacked then the AU should stand as one on the battelfield against colonialisum. South Africa and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia were accused of racisum and a call was made by the CAR to all Black African nations to topple the Whites only goverments. A 50/%50 joint mining deal in  the limestone bed in Vakaga province in which kaolin, kyanite, limestone and quartz can be mined was also shoved in Libya's face in an act of naked bribery, just for good mesure.

The OAU agreed to oppose Korean exspaionisum and backed the ending of Aparthied, which sparked of a Black rebelion in S. Africa. Libya agreed with the OAU, but was moved by it's concesnce, not because the CAR bribe.

Over seas aid (limited food, clothing, planks, human labour and limited fuel) is sent to flood/tsunami victims in San Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea, coastal parts of Cameroon and coastal parts of Greater Zaire and costal Angola after the 9.0 Brazilian costal earthquake of 1978.5. The tidal wave was 8ft as it hit the cost of Reo Moni in Equatorial Guinea, killing about 60% in the 1 mile inland danger zone. David Dacko hears a few days later on VOA radio and on Radio Moscow that it's 50% worse in Brazil. David cries and decliars a week of national morning in the CAR.

Lots of Japanese built schools and hospitals opened in 1978.5.

The CAR welcomed the resent events and the 1978.5  Black anti-Apartheid revolt in S. Africa.

The Gabya tribal propaganda campaing was juged a falier and scraped in 1979.5. Many farms open and new buss servaces are made avalible that year. Good relations are offered to S. Africa.

Transport
Sadly, the nation's roads and railways are too underdeveloped to to do much. Japan, the USA and Zaire are developing better ones as part of an aid deal. There are a few light cargo, heavy cargo and light passenger aircraft. There are 7 ferrys on the River Oubangui    (1 ex Argentine, 1 ex-Brazilian and 1 ex-Danish). Some freight and fishing ships sail down the Oubangui in to the River Congo to get to the sea.

A small industrial airstrip opens in in Bakouma town in 1976.

A fire in the capital destroys the central bus station in 1977, but rebiult with in 6 months.

Roads were noticably upgraded in 1977.5. A Candian  made new  ighway system was started in 1978.

A small port is added to the lower reaches of the Oubangui River. There is an international airport at Bangui-Mpoko, replacing the near by single airstrip ex-colonial airport in 1978.

A bus strike occured over pay was quickly dealt with that year.

A small port and a navy jetty is built on the lower reaches of the River Kotto in 1979.

A new Ferry boat, 5 non bulk ore carrying ships and a navy patrol boat are all built in 1979. Many new buss servaces are made avalible in 1979.5.

Commercial aircraft
They operate at the singel runway Bangui international airport,3 dirt elsware airstrips and 3 heliports.
 * 9 heavy cargo planes (1 ex-USA, 2 ex-Canadian, 2 ex Argentine, 2 ex-Brazilian and 2 ex-Danish)
 * 12 light cargo planes(2 ex Argentine, 2 ex-Brazilian and 2 ex-Danish)
 * 10 light passenger aircraft (4 more planned)
 * 14 light utility helicopters (2 ex Argentine, 2 ex-Brazilian and 2 ex-Danish)
 * 6 light cargo helicopters (2 ex-Canadian) (2 more planned)
 * 2 medium cargo helicopters (3 more planned)

Healthcare
Small pox is eradicated in 1976. Lots of Japanese built hospitals opened in 1978.5.

Telecommunications
Telephones are made common place in the capital city during 1973. A Ex-president Telephones become commonplace in all major towns by 1977.

Radio services are greatly improved with new and better transmitters. Cheap radio hand sets are sent to people in Bangui and Bambari. in 1977.

Education
The Japanese biult Bangui University opened in 1976.5. Some Spanish, Japanese, English, Kikongo and Ngambay language courses are offered up. Agriculture, meteorology and geology are also taught there as a norm.

Lots of Japanese built schools opened in 1978.5.

Economics
A trade deal and alliance was made with the USA in 1975, and with both Zaire and Japan in 1975.5. A central African trading block grouping is put forward (CAR, Zaïre, Cameroon, Rwanda, Burundi, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and Angola) in 1975.5. It is allies with Zaïre formed a trading and industrial partnership with the CAR that year. A CAR-EG trade deal was made in 1976.5.

Other treatys were singed with the goverments of Australia, Siam, Denmark, Canada, Brazil, the West African Republic, San Tome-Pricepe and Argentina by 1979.

Many farms open in 1979.5.

Armed forces

 * Army-
 * 4,762 conscripts.
 * Regular troops- 4, 662
 * Elite troops- 100 conscripts (Japanese trained).
 * 5 light tanks, 2 medium tanks, 25 cargo trucks, 3 APCs and 10 artillery peace. One more APC planned.


 * Air force- 36 conscripts
 * two Airstrips and two heliports
 * Two light fighters, three light utility helicopters, 1 troop transporter aircraft,  heavy cargo planes (ex-USA), 1 medium cargo plane (ex-USA) and 1 more planned, one medium fighter and one medium cargo helicopter.


 * Navy- 185 conscripts
 * 4 navy jettys and 3 minor dockyards.
 * 3 patrol boats. 2 more planned.


 * Presidential guard- 250 (Japanese trained).

Environment
A series of bad bush fires near Bira are quickly dealt with and the CAR set up a wild life reserve near Nola in 1978.

Media

 * National newspaper
 * Several local newspapers
 * National short wave radio
 * Local medium wave Radio

Arts
A display of traditional CAR art is offered to Hungary and Zaire, to be sent in to the Tábor and Kinshasa art galleries for 6 months if they want it in 1979.

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