Third Mali Empire

The Third Mali Empire is a superstate spanning almost all of West Africa.

History
In 2021, Mali suddenly launches a violent assault on all its neighboring countries. With the enemies poorly prepared, and the Malian troops being trained in the desert, it was able to conquer a huge part of Africa within 3 years. They declared the Second Mali Empire on January 1st, 2025.

Soon after the empire was declared, a huge portion of the population was unhappy with the ruling family and how they managed the country. Revolts occurred throughout habitable areas of the country, forcing the family to go into exile in what was left of Tunisia. However, the entire family was executed close to the border with Tunisia. Another family, this time with better power and better representation of the empire, took power and established the Third Mali Empire on February 19th, 2026.

In 2040, the Third Mali Empire had crippled all the resources of the African continent, salvaging it all for itself. In this way, it was able to annex 90% of the African continent and make the rest puppet states. Managing all this territory under the sole name of Mali posed a challenge to national identity, so the Mali-African Union was declared on September 29th, 2040.