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Spotlight AFRICA RUSSIA Defence Issue dated 19/07/2019

Alpha Conde, Putin's middleman for Somaliland

Alpha Conde, visiting Vladimir Putin in 2017 here, urges Somaliland to develop ties with Moscow. ©Kremlin/All Rights Reserved

On 4 July, the Somalian government of Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo announced that it was severing diplomatic ties with Guinea. The official reason given was that on 3 July on the eve of the African Union (AU) summit in Niamey, [...] (581 words)

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Chinese ambassador Qin Jian with Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo, in 2017.

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Focus AFRICA 18/11/2019

Russia's electoral "experts" aim to conquer Africa

Although controversial in Russia itself, Russian electoral know-how has become an export product, notably in Africa. Russian pollsters, consultants and analysts are besieging African presidencies with offers of opinion polls and vote surveillance techniques, which they present as antidotes to Western interference. [...]

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Jubba Airways criticised by UN

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Ismail Omar Guelleh lands in Conakry

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The geopolitics of road corridors

According to information obtained by the Indian Ocean Newsletter, in mid-September the Somalian finance minister, Abdirahman Duale Bayle, and his [...]

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African Union to consider state of relations between Hargeisa and Mogadishu

According to our sources, in late May the chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, asked the [...]

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Farmajo's fifty-fifty oil deal

The tax arrangements for the selling off of oil blocks will serve investors' interests, but above all those of the president… [...]

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As AMISOM departs, the Ethiopians arrive

With Western governments, not least the UK, concerned at the army taking over from AMISOM, Ethiopia is seeking to set up a base in the country… [...]

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A joint air authority on the horizon

Having tried to run its airspace on its own, Mogadishu is now seeking a joint arrangement with Hargeisa. [...]

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Ambassador Qin Jian speaks his mind over Somaliland

Fresh setbacks in Hargeisa and Mogadishu mediation efforts

PAE to take care of AMISOM's logistics

Clash of Turkish and Qatari interests in Mogadishu

Russia's electoral "experts" aim to conquer Africa

Jubba Airways criticised by UN

SAIC to advise US mission in Mogadishu

Ismail Omar Guelleh lands in Conakry

The geopolitics of road corridors

African Union to consider state of relations between Hargeisa and Mogadishu

Farmajo's fifty-fifty oil deal

As AMISOM departs, the Ethiopians arrive

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