When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in February he raised questions about Ethiopia's rumoured involvement in Sudan's war and the alleged presence of a training camp for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary on Ethiopian soil...
Diplomatic observers note Israeli President Isaac Herzog's late-February visit to Addis as a signal of political encouragement while visits by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and senior Saudi officials are seen as attempts to dissuade escalation...
He knows his allies Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Djibouti President Ismaël Omar Guelleh and Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki will help him do so...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is determined to demonstrate his commitment to the defence agreement signed in 2024...
Vol 66 No 16 |
- SOMALIA
- TURKEY
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...
DISPATCHES
Last week Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became the latest international leader to offer his services as a mediator following the collapse of the latest peace talks brokered by Angola in December (Dispatches 17/12/24 Dispute on M23's status derails latest peace talks)...
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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...