09-05-2016, 03:25 PM
Gabon
After decades of economic reliance on oil and petroleum byproduct extraction, Gabon had become, at least briefly, an economically stable nation. Until the global economic collapse, and the sudden loss of foreign investors, lenders, and support. Hyperinflation began when various major world banks began liquidating Gabon assets to pay the nation's steep international debt. Economically crippled, Gabon's next blow came from a brief and brutal land war with Equatorial Guinea, which saw a large swath of the nation's north seized by the smaller nation. This expansion only ended when rogue nationalist militias set fire to many of the nation's oil fields, some of which still burn today. The nation has yet to recover, and is little more then a loose affiliation of city-states and broad swaths of unclaimed territory.
Gambia - Legion Aligned
Rampant desertification of the region had left The Gambia as one of few viable living areas on the region. This sparked a desperate land war with Senegal in the mid-'20s which saw the region annexed. Nationalist militias resisted the occupation into the mid-'30s, until the crippling effects of the spread of the desert weakened Senegal enough for The Gambia to re-emerge as a self-ruled region. It is one of few 'green belts' left in West Africa.
Edited by Jacques, Nov 7 2017, 07:38 PM.
After decades of economic reliance on oil and petroleum byproduct extraction, Gabon had become, at least briefly, an economically stable nation. Until the global economic collapse, and the sudden loss of foreign investors, lenders, and support. Hyperinflation began when various major world banks began liquidating Gabon assets to pay the nation's steep international debt. Economically crippled, Gabon's next blow came from a brief and brutal land war with Equatorial Guinea, which saw a large swath of the nation's north seized by the smaller nation. This expansion only ended when rogue nationalist militias set fire to many of the nation's oil fields, some of which still burn today. The nation has yet to recover, and is little more then a loose affiliation of city-states and broad swaths of unclaimed territory.
Gambia - Legion Aligned
Rampant desertification of the region had left The Gambia as one of few viable living areas on the region. This sparked a desperate land war with Senegal in the mid-'20s which saw the region annexed. Nationalist militias resisted the occupation into the mid-'30s, until the crippling effects of the spread of the desert weakened Senegal enough for The Gambia to re-emerge as a self-ruled region. It is one of few 'green belts' left in West Africa.
Edited by Jacques, Nov 7 2017, 07:38 PM.