The Dawn Observer | al-Fajr al-Muraqib | L'observateur de l'aube | Mai duba DawnThe Dawn Observer is the largest newspaper in Statrica.March, 5392 | Prime Minister Khairi missing as fighting erupts around capital.Bukoha (Breznica) - Prime Minister Nabulung Khairi has been missing for several days, several factions around the country have declared a variety of interim governments and factions have competed for control over the capital Bukoha. The most prominent of those factions is lead by Lieutenant General Nasir Bature, a prominent Statrican Army General who had connections to several well-equipped military forces in the country. Bature is a figure that conjures controversy whenever he is mentioned, a prominent military officer in the Statrican Army who always feigned not having political aspirations, he became a central figure in the resistance to the government of Prime Minister Khairi and vocalized his support for a semi-presidential republic, likely with himself at the center. Bature served as a member of the Canrillaise Foreign Legion and has trained at a number of military academies and schools from across the Canrillaise nations, making him a well-educated and well connected military officer. As the
government in Talmoria was toppled by Ahmadist in February, 5392, Bature has increasingly found himself among left-wing allies and those espousing more Ahmadist views. Bature, self-promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General, previously served as a Colonel and was in charge of the elite 1st Armored Regiment (Canrillaise: 1er Régiment Blindé) which was charged with acting as a rapid response force for the government in Bukoha; as the government collapsed under increased factionalism, Bature declared himself Lieutenant General Bature and purged the 1st Armored Regiment of "...enemies of Socialism, the People and Ahmadism..." and took to securing a number of military bases around the capital and several smaller villages and cities that saw him as a "liberator" from the corrupt and ineffective central government. Bature currently leads an ad hoc group known as the Ahmadi Revolutionary Association (Canrillaise: Association révolutionnaire ahmadi; ARA) with support from the existing Socialist Party (Canrillaise: parti socialiste).
Several more prominent radical Ahmadi groups exist outside of Bature's, who is generally moderate. The Supreme Ahmadi Council in Statrica part of the wider Supreme Israic Council, brings together multiple factions and once served in the government of Statrica but has since become a rebel group following the collapse of the Khairi government in march, 5392. The former Minister of Education, Culture and Sport Danjuma Fu'ad, a member of the Supreme Ahmadi Council in Statrica (SACOS), now leads the group following the death of long-time leader Sheikh Usman el-Fawaz who was found dead, suspected to have been killed by agents from the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (Canrillaise: Direction du renseignement et de la sécurité; DRS). While Ahmadi socialist underneath Bature and more hard-line Ahmadist under el-Fawaz have maintained relative peace, other elements are in work including right-wing nationalist movements, ethnic movements from the Huhoa (OOC: Hausa), the Keobi (OOC: Igbo), the Ndelo (OOC: Lingala), and the Batokelaw (OOC: Ewe).