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Nation Name Republic of South-East Africa Formerly The Republic of Namibia; The Republic of Zambia; The Republic of Malawi.
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National Anthem The three now-merged countries have unofficial anthems of their own, and the Republic have never invested into creating a new one for the Republic itself.
Leader President and Representative for Zambia, Omari Banda Vice-President and Representative for Malawi, Nahas Kunda Representative for Namibia, Asser Kuveri Kapere
Government Republic Each country holds at least some internal freedom, but laws and important factors come straight from Windhoek where the government is based, and is used for the three countries. Each country has a representative to put forward ideas for the individual countries, and these are duely elected by the people of the certain country, and approved overall by the President of the Republic.
Economic System Capitalist
Currency South African Rand
Economic Tier 2nd Tier
History Before the Republic of South-East Africa
Spoiler: click to toggle Malawi The area of Africa now known as Malawi had a very small population of hunter gatherers before waves of Bantus began emigrating from the north around the 10th century. Although most of the Bantus continued south, some remained permanently and founded tribes based on common ancestry. By 1500 AD, the tribes had established a kingdom that reached from north of what is now Nkhotakota to the Zambezi River and from Lake Malawi to the Luangwa River in what is now Zambia. Soon after, with the area mostly united under one native ruler, native tribesmen began encountering, trading with and making alliances with Portuguese traders and members of the military. However, the empire had reverted to the control of many individual tribes, which was noted by the Portuguese in their information gathering.
David Livingstone reached Lake Malawi (then Lake Nyasa) and Malawi was originally known as Nyasaland under the rule of the British. In a prime example of what is sometimes called the "Thin White Line" of colonial authority in Africa, the colonial government of Nyasaland was formed. The administrators were given a budget of £10,000 per year, which was enough to employ ten European civilians, two military officers, seventy Punjab Sikhs, and eighty-five Zanzibar porters. These few employees were then expected to administer and police a territory of around 94,000 square kilometers with between one and two million people.
The Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) was formed by the Africans of Nyasaland to promote native peoples' interests to the British government. Britain linked Nyasaland with Northern and Southern Rhodesia in what was known as the Central African Federation (CAF), for mainly political reasons. The linking provoked opposition from African nationalists, and the NAC gained popular support. An influential opponent of the CAF was Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, a European-trained doctor working in Ghana who was persuaded to return to Nyasaland to assist the nationalist cause. Banda was elected president of the NAC and worked to mobilize nationalist sentiment before being jailed by colonial authorities. He was released and asked to help draft a new constitution for Nyasaland, with a clause granting Africans the majority in the colony's Legislative Counsel.
Banda's Malawi Congress Party (MCP) gained the majority in the Legislative Counsel and Banda was elected prime minister. The Federation was dissolved, and Nyasaland became independent from British rule and renamed itself Malawi. Under a new constitution, Malawi became a single-party state under MCP rule and Banda declared himself president-for-life. For almost 30 years, Banda ruled firmly, suppressing opposition to his party and ensuring that he had no personal opposition. Despite his political severity, however, Malawi's economy while Banda was president was often cited as an example of how a poor, landlocked, heavily populated, mineral-poor country could achieve progress in both agriculture and industrial development. While in office, and using his control of the country, Banda constructed a business empire that eventually produced one-third of the country's GDP and employed 10% of the wage-earning workforce.
Zambia The area of modern Zambia was inhabited by Khoisan hunter-gatherers until around AD 300, when technologically-advanced migrating tribes began to displace or absorb them. In the 12th century, major waves of Bantu-speaking immigrants arrived during the Bantu expansion. Among them, the Tonga people (also called Batonga) were the first to settle in Zambia and are believed to have come from the east near the "big sea". The Nkoya people also arrived early in the expansion, coming from the Luba-Lunda kingdoms located in the southern parts of the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Angola, followed by a much larger influx, especially between the late 17th and early 19th centuries. In the early 18th century, the Nsokolo people settled in the Mbala district of Northern province. During the 19th century, the Ngoni peoples arrived from the south. By the late 19th century, most of the various peoples of Zambia were established in the areas they currently occupy. A statue of David Livingstone on the Zambian side of Victoria Falls
The earliest account of a European visiting the area was Francisco de Lacerda in the late 18th century, followed by other explorers in the 19th century. The most prominent of these was David Livingstone, who had a vision of ending the slave trade through the "3 C's" (Christianity, Commerce and Civilisation). He was the first European to see the magnificent waterfalls on the Zambezi River, naming them Victoria Falls after Queen Victoria. Locally the falls are known "Mosi-oa-Tunya" or "(the) thundering smoke" (in the Lozi or Kololo dialect). The town of Livingstone, near the falls, is named after him. Highly publicised accounts of his journeys motivated a wave of explorers, missionaries and traders after his death in 1873.
In 1888, the British South Africa Company, (BSA Company) led by Cecil Rhodes, obtained mineral rights from the Litunga, the king of the Lozi for the area which later became North-Western Rhodesia. To the east, King Mpezeni of the Ngoni resisted but was defeated in battle and that part of the country came to be known as North-Eastern Rhodesia. The two were administered as separate units until 1911 when they were merged to form Northern Rhodesia. In 1923, the Company ceded control of Northern Rhodesia to the British Government after the government decided not to renew the Company's charter.
That same year, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), which was also administered by the BSA Company, became self-governing. In 1924, after negotiations, administration of Northern Rhodesia transferred to the British Colonial Office. The creation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland grouped together Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland (now Malawi) as a single semi-autonomous region. This was undertaken despite opposition from a sizeable minority of Africans, who demonstrated against it in 1960-61.[8] Northern Rhodesia was the centre of much of the turmoil and crisis characterizing the federation in its last years. Initially, Harry Nkumbula's African National Congress (ANC) led the campaign that Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party (UNIP) subsequently took up.
Kaunda won the first and only election for Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia. The Colonial Governor, Sir Evelyn Hone, was very close to Kaunda and urged him to stand for the post. Soon afterwards there was an uprising in the north of the country known as the Lumpa Uprising led by Alice Lenshina – Kaunda's first internal conflict as leader of the nation.
A two-stage election resulted in an African majority in the legislative council and an uneasy coalition between the two African nationalist parties. The council passed resolutions calling for Northern Rhodesia's secession from the federation and demanding full internal self-government under a new constitution and a new National Assembly based on a broader, more democratic franchise. The federation was dissolved on 31 December 1963, and Northern Rhodesia became the Republic of Zambia, with Kaunda as the first president.
At independence, despite its considerable mineral wealth, Zambia faced major challenges. Domestically, there were few trained and educated Zambians capable of running the government, and the economy was largely dependent on foreign expertise. Three neighbouring countries – Angola, Mozambique and Southern Rhodesia – remained under colonial rule. Southern Rhodesia's white-ruled government unilaterally declared independence. In addition, Zambia shared a border with South West Africa (Namibia) which was administered by South Africa. Zambian sympathies lay with forces opposing colonial or white-dominated rule, particularly in Southern Rhodesia (subsequently called Rhodesia). During the next decade, it actively supported movements such as UNITA in Angola; the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU); the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa; and the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO).
Conflict with Rhodesia resulted in the closure of the border with that countryand severe problems with international transport and power supply. However, the Kariba hydroelectric station on the Zambezi River provided sufficient capacity to satisfy the country's requirements for electricity (despite the fact that the control centre was on the Rhodesian side of the border). A railway to the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam, built with Chinese assistance, reduced Zambian dependence on railway lines south to South Africa and west through an increasingly troubled Angola. Until the completion of the railway, however, Zambia's major artery for imports and the critical export of copper was along the TanZam Road, running from Zambia to the port cities in Tanzania. A pipeline for oil was also built from Dar-es-Salaam to Ndola in Zambia.
Mozambique and Angola had attained independence from Portugal. Zimbabwe achieved independence in accordance with the Lancaster House Agreement, however Zambia's problems were not solved. Civil war in the former Portuguese colonies created an influx of refugees and caused continuing transportation problems. The Benguela railway, which extended west through Angola, was essentially closed to traffic from Zambia. Zambia's strong support for the ANC, which had its external headquarters in Lusaka, created security problems as South Africa raided ANC targets in Zambia.
Namibia The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by Bushmen, Damara, Namaqua, and since about the 14th century AD, by immigrating Bantu who came with the Bantu expansion. The first Europeans to disembark and explore the region were the Portuguese navigators Diogo Cão in 1485 and Bartolomeu Dias in 1486, still the region was not claimed by the Portuguese crown. However, like most of Sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia was not extensively explored by Europeans until the 19th century. Namibia became a German colony and was known as German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika)[3] – apart from Walvis Bay, which was under British control. From 1904 to 1907, the Herero and the Namaqua took up arms against the Germans and in the subsequent Herero and Namaqua genocide, 10,000 Nama (half the population) and 25,000 to 100,000 (possibly 65,000) Herero (three quarters of the population) were killed. South Africa occupied the colony during World War I and administered it as a League of Nations mandate territory until after World War II, when it unilaterally annexed the territory, without international recognition.
The South-West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) military wing, People's Liberation Army of Namibia, a guerrilla group launched a war of independence. South Africa soon agreed to end its administration of Namibia, in accordance with a United Nations peace plan for the entire region. Independence came, and Walvis Bay was ceded to Namibia upon the end of Apartheid in South Africa. The Republic President Rupaih Banda of Zambia had promised a unification of Zambia, but it was his son, Omari Banda, that took over the presidential role and started work on uniting Zambia. Soon after this, President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi was shot down by an anonymous gunsman, and the country was thrown into a civil war. Zambia was an area of conflict due to this as well, when fleeing tribesmen tried to rally on the wrong side of the borders. It ended with several hundred Zambian's dead and Malawi on the brink of collapse. Omari Banda made a move which was seen as foolish at the time, and sent in troops to Malawi to cease the civil war. However, by the new acting President this was seen as an act of war, and both countries were thrown into dispute. But the new government was disbanded by guerrilla group that took over for a short while, until they made a pact with President Banda, and the two countries were soon on their way to unification. Banda and the guerrilla group leader, Nahas Kunda, created the Republic of South-East Africa, containing both the Republic of Zambia and the Republic of Malawi. It was at this time when Namibia was under threat from its bordering countries. It sent a plea for help and support to the Republic of South-East Africa, who replied back saying that if Namibia was to join under one flag and one name, then the whole Republic would protect their people and their territories. President Hifikepunye Pohamba grudgingly agreed with this, but did not fully accept the agreement to the disbelief of the people. He was cast out by public vote, and a new man, Asser Kuveri Kapere, who was originally part of Namibia's foreign relations, stepped up, and signed the pact making Namibia, Zambia and Malawi essentially one state under the Republic of South-East Africa.
Major Cities Windhoek (Capital) Swakopmund Blantyre Lilongwe Ndola Lusaka
Population Approximately 27,420,747 last national census.
Military (Active)
Infantry Corps 1st South-East Corps: 40,000 Troops
 500 Artillery
Armor 100 Tanks

Airforce South-East Air: 40 Fighter jets
 10 Transports
 10 Battle Helicopters
 30 Transport Helicopters

Navy South-East Sea: 30 Patrol Boats

Pacts/Alliances
News
Edited by Beriadan, Jan 7 2009, 08:19 AM.
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