Recaps

Ahro Sankara used Burkina’s uranium to secure Soviet financing, expand the army, and promise reforms while France and domestic opponents moved against him. When the National Liberation Alliance besieged Nijia, the city’s defenders held on until Burkina’s aircraft arrived and the Central Army reached the outskirts.

• Ahro Sankara took control of the Presidential Palace, activated the National GDP Development System, and promised citizens food, clothing, and jobs.
• Sankara reorganized the government, confronted French ambassador Adrian over Burkina’s treaties, and offered uranium access to secure a Soviet loan and military support.
• Sankara ordered the execution of officials he considered disloyal, expanded the army, and promised raises funded by Soviet financing while setting education and health plans in motion.
• Sankara’s officials distributed withheld wages and arrested Gilbert Yaméogo, while France’s intelligence bureau ordered support for anti-government forces and a civil war.
• The National Liberation Alliance attacked Nijia, and Sankara ordered central and local brigades to relieve the city, promising the local brigades a billion North African francs each.
• Old William and Nijia’s police, soldiers, doctors, and civilians resisted the assault as Krov returned to fight and the city’s defenses fell back to the hospital.
• Burkina’s fighter aircraft bombed the National Liberation Alliance and forced its troops to retreat from the hospital, while Full Beard’s Aksang Brigade pressed the attack outside the city.
• On December 10, Full Beard and the other local commanders saw Sankara’s four central army brigades arrive in western Nijia with extensive armor and modern equipment.

Sankara advanced agricultural reform by confronting landlord resistance while government forces recovered Nijia and maneuvered against armed factions. The arc ended with foreign mercenaries taking control of the National Liberation Alliance as government forces launched an attack.

• Sankara learned that Burkina’s grain production was far below the population’s needs and proposed land reform, then agreed with officials on a wartime plan to buy and redistribute land while expanding staple crops.
• Sankara ordered the arrest of disloyal officials, and the National Security Committee arrested Mitchell Roberts and Mitchell Buer for treason.
• French mercenaries helped the National Liberation Alliance retreat from Nijia, while Sankara reinforced Bugani and authorized payment to Claude’s brigades based on their contributions.
• Sankara revealed Burkina’s gold reserves to Compaoré and planned to use the expected mining revenue to finance a five-year infrastructure program.
• Kanel and other landlords resisted Sankara’s cotton policy, but security forces thwarted their planned terrorist attack, arrested them, and executed them after trial.
• Sankara announced a one-trillion-franc infrastructure plan as government forces retook the territory around Nijia and faced a renewed offensive against Bugani.
• Sankara planned to use Claude’s forces against the National Liberation Alliance while transferring their best personnel into the Army Senior Officer School, and Orore received one of the school’s transfer orders.
• Foreign mercenaries debated taking control of the National Liberation Alliance’s territory, then learned that government forces had launched an attack.