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Erdogan plays mediator for Embalo

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Erdogan sets out to conquer Africa

Keen to reassert Turkey's international status, and also to help Turkish companies to break into the African market, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been spearheading a major diplomatic and business drive in Africa. To achieve its goals, the Turkish government is counting on the assistance of its religious networks. [...]

Ever since Umaro Sissoco Embalo stepped into power in Guinea-Bissau early last year, the Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been working to build an unexpected and unprecedented connection between the two countries. [...]

Published on 26.06.2020 at 05:00 GMT

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Summa
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Tamim ben Hamad Al Thani
Umaro Sissoco Embalo

Guinea Bissau
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Guinea Bissau
Embaló wants to declare war on parliament

Now that he no longer has a two-thirds majority in the National People's Assembly, President Umaro Sissoco Embaló cannot carry out his planned constitutional reform. He has threatened to dissolve the assembly, raising fears that this could provoke a political crisis just one year after his own highly contested election as president.

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The president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló.

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Embaló snubs Turkish business

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Le président bissau-guinéen Umaro Sissoco Embaló.

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Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo.

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Erdogan aims to form a pro-Turkish bloc along the West African coast

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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) and Guinea-Bissauan president Umaro Sissoco Embalo.

Equatorial Guinea, Turkey
Summa, Erdogan's best ambassador in Malabo

The opening of a new Turkish embassy in Equatorial Guinea has crowned an already vigorous partnership between Ankara and the Obiang family, cemented by numerous contracts for Turkish companies, including the Summa conglomerate.

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Meeting between the President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema and Selim Bora, president of the Turkish conglomerate Summa, in April 2019.

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in January 2020.

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Guinea
Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

DRC
Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

Guinea Bissau, Turkey
Erdogan plays mediator for Embalo

Guinea Bissau
Embaló picks Qatar as first Gulf conquest

Guinea Bissau
Embaló wants to declare war on parliament

West Africa
Embaló snubs Turkish business

Angola, Guinea Bissau
With Buhari's patronage, Embalo dictates the pace with Lourenço

Turkey, West Africa
Erdogan aims to form a pro-Turkish bloc along the West African coast

Equatorial Guinea, Turkey
Summa, Erdogan's best ambassador in Malabo

In Focus | Algeria, Turkey
Allab, Tosyali, Bora and Demiral blaze trail for Erdogan's Algerian business crusade

Guinea Bissau, Portugal, West Africa
Embalo makes energetic start on his 12 diplomatic labours

Spotlight | Guinea
Summa, WIETC and Sogea-Satom vie for Conakry Airport contract

Spotlight | West Africa
Erdogan's Sahelian manoeuvres

West Africa
Guinea-Bissau leader Umaro Sissoco Embalo in Paris to meet Nicolas Sarkozy