Bamvangan insurgency

Bamvangan Insurgency
Military situation in Bamvango as of 18 August 2021; Red the Bamvangan government and supportive militias, green the Bamvangan Revolutionary Government and teal the Patriotic Front-Kuol Arop
Date 15 March 2015-present 9 years, 8 months and 1 week Location Bamvango Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Bamvangan government Bamvangan Ground Forces Bamvangan Air Forces Republican Guard Northwest Alliance Patriotic Front-Arman (2017-present) Supported by: Template:Country data Estmere Zorasan GOMCONBA	Bamvangan Revolutionary Government Bamvangan Revolutionary Army Cobra Force Supported by: Zorasan (alleged) Patriotic Front-Kuol Arap (2017-present) Supported by: Yemet (alleged)
Commanders and leaders
Anthony Benoudjita Mosaab Arman Kobila Koundja Aboubakar Hassaballah Mir Shapoor	Abdallah Daya Ibrahim Gabriel Jerbo Asrif Koumakoye Oscar Kuol Arap Johnathan Mayardit
Strength
Bamvangan Security Forces: 150,000 (2020) Militias: 10,000+	Bamvangan Revolutionary Army: 45,000 PF-Kuol Arap: 30,000
Casualties and losses
8,674 killed (official estimates) 12,000+ (unofficial estimates)	5,000+ killed or injured (per Bamvangan government)
197,583 civilians killed 2,000,000+ displaced

The Bamvangan Insurgency is an ongoing civil war in the Bamvango involving the government, rebels from the Bamvangan Revolutionary Government (BRG), and Patriotic Front-Kuol Arap (PF-KA).

The conflict has its roots in the Bamvangan Civil War from 2013-2014 when a rebel group, the Patriotic Front, rose up against the government of long-time president Abdallah Daya Ibrahim and deposed his government, creating a new government dominated by PF officials. Ibrahims core supporters fled to northeast Bamvango where his powerbase lay, with the Bamvangan government under newly elected president Anthony Benoudjita failing to dislodge rebel forces from this territory. In 2015 the rebel forces declared the creation of the BRG and launched an offensive that seized much of northern Bamvango.

In 2017 former PF leader and vice-president Oscar Kuol-Arap launched a rebellion in southeast Bamvango severely weakening the central government. A CN peacekeeping force, the Community of Nations Bamvangan Military Observer Group (GOMCONBA) alongside a deployment of Estmerish air support allowed the government to prevent the PF-KA from taking Idoukan. However in 2020 the PF-KA pushed government forces back with the BRG consolidating its control in northern Bamvango and the PF-KA in the southeast.

The conflict has displaced 2 million people and has reversed much of the social and economic progress the country made in the past decade. Reasons for the conflict include ethnic and religious tensions, a desire to control resources and the role of outside actors such as Zorasan, Estmere and Yemet. Unsuccessful peace talks in St Avelines have produced no lasting peace agreement.