Also, for the former italian colonial area...
"The Sanusi (or Senussi) Religious Order was founded by the noted Islamic religious scholar Mahommed ben Ali ben es Senussi in 1835. At its height in the 1880s, the order controlled most of the interior of North Africa and dominated the north-south trade routes across the Sahara. However, after a confrontation with the Ottoman government in 1894 sheik Senussi el Mahdi withdrew his headquarters to the remote oasis of Kufra, safe from outside interference. The last twenty years have seen the Order's influence shrink as the British and French extend their colonial power into areas once dominated by the Sanusi. In 1911 came a greater blow: the Italian war with the Ottoman Empire. The Italians quickly occupied the major Turkish ports in North Africa, but were unable to penetrate far inland. Nevertheless, the peace treaty of 1912 handed the whole area over to Italy. The undefeated Turkish troops in the region, unwilling to surrender, defected en masse to the Sanusi, bringing with them a nucleus of trained troops and modern weapons including artillery. In November 1912 the Sanusi leader Ahmad ash-Sharif swore to drive out the Italians and restore Muslim rule to the whole of Libya. Maps printed in Europe may show a vast Italian-controlled empire in North Africa; but at the start of 1914 the reality is that the Italians are now hemmed into a narrow coastal strip by the Senusi army."
They managed to actually conquer territory up to untill 1916 and the last vestiges of the order were destroyed in 1937...but that's IRL!
You could propably ask the 1914 folks for more info...
EDIT: This was taking from one thread in the 1914 subforum...I asked Allenby and he was OK with me taking stuff from there.