On a chilly December morning in Tunis, the Tunisian presidential guard made its way to the new Palestinian embassy just a few hundred metres from Belvedere Park. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), had come in person to inaugurate this majestic light brick building with its oriental arch entrance, his presence symbolising Palestinian diplomacy's return to Africa with force.
At 86 years of age and in failing health, Yasser Arafat's former right-hand man has made very few
