Nile War (Alesjif)

In 2021, Ethiopia built a dam. This blocks the spread of water into Ethiopia. Sudan's President, Omar al-Bashir (عمر حسن أحمد البشير‎), claims this to be unfair use of the river that millions of people have relied on for thousands of years (they are Conservative.). Sudan threatens them to take the dam down, and if they don't, they will declare war. Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (عبد الفتاح السيسي) defends Ethiopia's choice, saying "The river doesn't need to flow the entire way. I understand that their economy may be rough, many African nations have been in poverty since the Colonial era. You simply cannot run a country without a major export." The Arab Union then warns that anyone who participates in the war will receive lower member status, and possibly kick them out. They simply cannot afford to help rivals. The thing is, Egypt doesn't have to worry. See, their leader rules the Arab Union. Who would kick themselves out of an alliance?

Fast forward to 2022, Ethiopia still hasn't removed the dam. Sudan writes a casus belli. Their goal is to "remove the dam, it should be a short war". An hour later, hashtag #NileWar goes trending on major social media platforms, mainly Twitter with 38.1K tweets on the first hour, and 338K at its peak in June, when the war started.

Rahad Conflict
As I said, in June 2022, the war starts. Abiy Ahmed (አብይ አሕመድ ዐሊ) says "We shall fire no arms. Until the war starts to go bad, we shall not call on our military." They chose to use other methods such as sabotage and stronger policing. Multiple policemen would be placed on the UN watchlist due to "inhumane tactics". An image would be posted to Facebook showing an unidentified Ethiopian police beating a Sudanese man named Munjid al-Sabir. The Sudanese man was identified by the mother, Naqiyya al-Sabir. The mother was a citizen of Somalia. She was a Somalian citizen. Ethiopia censored the images, and completely ignored anything even vaguely mentioning the image, which is just telling you they know about it, but it was too late. A Somalian politician found the image. The Somalian government was outraged by this. At first, they just warned the Ethiopian government to stop using the tactics.

The images just kept appearing. At this point, it was undeniable that these images were real. Somalia joins. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (محمد عبدالله محمد) says "I will not allow anymore people, not just Somalis, die from the terrible Ethiopian police". Now that Somalia is at war, this is a chance for terrorists to further their claims in Somalia and create claims in Ethiopia. Using their guerilla warfare tactics, they were able to claim a lot of Ethiopia, and were able to block off Ethiopia. It was too late. Ethiopia only controls a small portion of Southern Ethiopia.

The fall of Somalia
While Egypt is taking down Sudan, and Sudan has made great claims into Ethiopia, Ethiopian troops remain in Somalia. Is this the end of the country? Is there any hope? Sadly, there is no hope. It's August. Ethiopian troops have just entered Mogadishu (مقديشو). The Ethiopian military is cutting down on terrorists, which means there's no chance for Somaliland to reclaim the land, and say it's Somalia. ‎The Ethiopian military is called on, since the war is going terrible in the Sudanese front. In late September, they're able to push them out of Ethiopia, and a ceasefire is agreed on.

Ceasefire
The war is scaring everyone, not just in countries who are involved. Both sides need time to prepare, and time to calm their citizens down, and prepare their forces. Now that there is peace, there are many interviews for the presidents of each nation in the war. Still, not much info was learned about it. Trade is once again going fine, as the nations once again opened their markets. Nothing changed that much. It was just calm for a bit.