Kagibey Civil War

The Kagibey Civil War was a fought between the government of Kagibey and the Islamic Salvation Front of Kagibey (ISF).

The conflict began in April 1916 with the first major demonstrations against the Sultanate due to food shortages in the cities. However, the food riots soon turned violent and evolved into an anti-monarchist movement, with Islamists emerging as the major faction to claim leadership of the protests. By the end of April, the military which was predominately Muslim refused to back the Sultanate after it ordered soldiers shoot protesters in Bakali, killing 109 people. A diarchy of the military and clergy organised and led the violent protests under the umbrella of the Islamic Salvation Front, who seized many cities and over the next years led the military and revolutionary mobs against loyalists all across Kagibey. On the 1st of August 1919, the capital of Bakali was captured by the revolutionaries and the Sultanate officially dissolved, with the Sultan himself lynched by revolutionary mobs. Several days later on 3 August, the Islamic Republic of Kagibey was declared.