With France, the Iberian Peninsula, and most of the Balkans joining the Fascist camp, war breaks out between them and the German/Russian Communist alliance. Soon, Great Britain and the Austro-Hungarians are drawn into the conflict as well, reluctantly siding with the Fascists.
The Central African Federation stays neutral in the conflict, but their own struggle is brewing. The Union of South Africa has continued their march towards Apartheid, and this leads to increasing tensions between them and the more tolerant Central African Federation. When a massacre of schoolchildren protesting the new policies of South Africa occurs, the population of Central Africa is incensed, and demands war. Though hard fighting, the Afrikaaners are crushed by the German style Central African troops. The occupation of South Africa will be years of hard guerrilla fighting, but in the end South Africa will be incorporated into the Federation.
Meanwhile, to the North, a rebellion breaks out in Egypt/Sudan, which eventually wins its independence from the Ottomans (some claim the Egyptians had covert support from the British, French, and Italians).