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In a statement following talks on 11 December between Hassan Sheikh and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed mediated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the leaders ‘reaffirmed their respect and commitment to one another's sovereignty unity independence and territorial integrity'...
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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...
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Vol 65 No 16 |
- ETHIOPIA
- SOMALIA
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...
Having spoken to Sudan's rival generals last week Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who faces closely fought elections on 14 May said he would host talks in Ankara...
Vol 63 No 17 |
- HORN OF AFRICA
The parlous state of the Turkish economy led President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to seek more generous allies than Qatar despite sharing an agenda supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB)...
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On the same day in Istanbul Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary General António Guterres were lauding a breakthrough agreement between Russia and Ukraine to secure safe corridors for the export of Ukraine's US$10 billlion grain stockpile – a deal that could ease chronic shortages in the Middle East and Africa...
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Vol 62 No 22 |
- NORTH AFRICA
Relations with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) regime in Turkey – the model for the PJD and other MB affiliates – have abeen rocky as Rabat reversed the flood of Turkish goods into the local market which had been encouraged by PJD-linked business leaders seeking closer links to Ankara...
Vol 62 No 21 |
- TURKEY
- AFRICA
After several years of gradually increasing its political role in Africa Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has his eyes on trade...
And in September this year President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Mali's President Colonel Assimi Goïta by phone proposing cooperation across a range of areas – including military expertise on fighting terrorism...