The MONTH in Pictures
August 1-31, 2004
DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
War and Peace Board
August 04:Nubidia invades and conquers Aksum. The country collapses two weeks later. Few reasons are given for this aggression and Nubidia seems unapologetic for the significant loss of civilian life. (Right: Aksum refugees complain of torture)
August 05: Corsairio's decision to move "peacekeeping" forces into Eastern Africa sparks warfare with Akhtendum. After intense pressure from Eastern states, Corsairio retreats. Subsequently, the country is hit with massive debt. The government begins printing money to pay off the debt and hyperinlation kicked in, causing protests that led to the collapse of the state. Corsairio remains in anarchy.
July 30: Following the collapse of Bubonic Plague, Mulgaria invades Algeria (northern Bubonic Plague). The West Sub-Region protested. But it wasn't until Akhtendum threatened with nuclear weapons that Mulgaria retreated. The lands will now be administered by ECOWAS.
Above: Mulgarian citizens march in support of their president's actions in Algeria.
Above: Mulgarian military parade.
August 15: United Faiths, Rodavia and Phazania send forces to former Bubonic Plague in a peacekeeping mission known as ECOBUP. The former state is divided into three sectors with Rodavia taking the north, UF the center and Phazania the south. Right: Refugees in the neighboring countries prepare to return to former Bubonic Plague as peace and security return.
August 29: Akhtendum invades and nearly annihilates the Lord's Resistance Army's stronghold.
DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
World Commodities Plaza
August 11: The East-Sub Region faces hyperinflation.
August 12: The AU faces a budgetary crisis. (Below: Cartoonist Zapiro II, son of famous Libyan cartoonist Zapiro I, alludes to corruption by Former Rhodesia as the principle reason for the budgetary crisis and not the unwillingness of states to pay their member dues.
Djiboutian States will decrease oil prices.
Hein will pay quota.
Akhtendum refuses to pay in protest of SC38.
Garden State has already paid.
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