Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan effectively admitted it last month saying 'They had great troubles in defence equipment because they were unable to get any support for anywhere...
He has described Rwanda's Paul Kagame as an example to emulate and sidled up to Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan which landed a Turkish company the right to manage the Port autonome de Conakry amid much controversy (AC Vol 59 No 20 Turks in troubled waters)...
President Condé and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been good friends since March 2016 when the Turkish President visited Guinea during one of his frequent Africa trips...
Possibly the most desperate attempt to improve public finances yet is believed to lie behind President Edgar Lungu's public plea to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during bilateral talks on 28 July in Zambia for assistance in refinancing the Eurobonds...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken a special interest in Somalia and made three visits since 2011...
Turkish embraceMore controversially Hery has courted the Turkish strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who visited Antananarivo in January and proffered a reported $60 mn...
Several sources agreed with a senior secularist minister in the government which is still in office pending the new coalition's formation that the PJD was stealthily following a model of state penetration deployed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP; Justice and Development Party) another Islamist party linked to the Muslim Brotherhood...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's backing which we hear has been cemented by lucrative business between their respective cronies...
One African writer contrasted the vocabulary used by Western diplomats about the growing authoritarianism of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (whose cooperation over migration is much needed by the EU) with the stock critiques of repression in Uganda and Zimbabwe...
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Grassroots activists complain that they have been forgotten by leaders who appear to live in a bubble of glamour epitomised by the star-studded Children of Africa gala dinner the state visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or the glitzy shindig of the Africa Chief Executive Officer Forum held in March in Abidjan (AC Vol 57 No 6 Terror on the beach)...