Then if the survey shows commercial quantities of oil as everyone in Mogadishu expects President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will send the troops and equipment to achieve what the SNA could not: a full offensive against the jihadists...

Disregarding his domestic woes President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may take the diplomatic lead in the region by convening representatives from Chad and Sudan to negotiate a modus vivendi...

One highly positive development is the accord signed in Ankara between Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud brokered personally by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in December which has calmed the crisis (AC Vol 65 No 14 Abiy Ahmed's sovereignty deal with Muse Abdi risks more regional turmoil)...

After serial failures of negotiations led by the US and Saudi Arabia and the side-lining of the African Union this leaves a door open for Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan whose foreign minister Burhanettin Duran was in Port Sudan on 4 January promising to ship thousands of tons of food and medicines to the country...

In mid-December Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan brokered a deal between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia...

That means Somalia has won the backing of both Cairo and Ankara two of the most powerful states in the region following the rapprochement between Presidents Abdel Fattah el Sisi and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed annoyed the other parties by claiming that his team was present only at the behest of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan although it was Abiy who had requested mediation between Addis and Mogadishu...

After visiting Brussels Hassan Sheikh dropped in on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara where he won a commitment for Turkey to continue training the Gorgor...