"When ridding one's house of vermin, is it not enough to kill the last rat; one also has to seal the walls and prevent new rats from getting in!"
- Izig Aït-Yufayyur, Head Minister of the Ministry of Urban Infrastructure, speaking furiously during a meeting of Sultan Badir's administrators.

Allegedly due to covert Roman activity, Christian missionaries recently infiltrated the otherwise tightly-controlled city of Carthago and spread the word of Christ to the Punic communities there. This proved problematic for the Sultanate, seeing as the Punic communities maintain a strong ethnic identity and, seeing themselves as oppressed by their Berber overlords, are quick to identify with the Christians who have had their own extensive history of persecution.

Initially, the Sultan only responded to the latest Punic unrest by sending additional soldiers to patrol Carthago and its surroundings. However, once the Christian Punics called for the establishment of a North African diocese, the situation escalated rapidly. The newly Christian Carthaginians openly rioted in the streets and even attacked the relatively few Faryaban temples in Carthago; in response, the Governor of Douar Carthago decreed that no Punic residents of his province would be permitted to utilize the clinics and educational services offered by said temples; if the Punics wanted to retain access to these temple-provided services, they would have to acknowledge the legitimacy of Faryaba as the Sultanate's state religion, regardless of their personal beliefs.

Naturally, this motion only made things worse.

A substantial portion of Carthago's Punic population has rallied around one Admago, son of Mintho, and a devout Christian as well. He has gone so far as to claim that the Punics should be able to establish Christianity as their official religion, just as most Tuaregs and many other Berbers freely practice Faryaba in the Sultanate. Rather than try to immediately put down this movement with force, which has not historically proven to be a successful response to urban rioting in the lands of the Imazighen, the Sultan's court has launched a negative propaganda campaign against Admago and his following.

This propaganda campaign might be characterized as petty for the large degree to which it targeted Admago's name. Being the name of the most infamous Punic rebel in North Africa, Admago has been a phenomenally popular ethnic name since the early days of the Caliphate Aït-Usem. Berber propagandists have used this trend to denounce Admago the Devout as nothing more than a bothersome reincarnation of his namesake, part of a legacy of equally bothersome Punic activists. The progaganda campaign has not been greatly effective among the Punics themselves, but the satirical pseudonym Admago Aït-Admago is now heard from the lips of numerous Berbers, often in bawdy stories told in inns and caravansaries. Some of the crudest of these tales openly describe "Admago Aït-Admago" in romantic trysts with elephants. The Faryaban priesthood, meanwhile, favors the pseudonym Admago, Son of Himself, mocking both his heritage and his faith.

Regardless of which faction seems to be gaining the upper hand in yet another episode of Punic civil unrest, the situation appears unlikely to improve.