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Erdogan protects Sarraj but risks regional conflict

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“Erdogan sets out to conquer Africa”

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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. [...]

It took government of national accord (GNA) chief Fayez Sarraj just an hour and a half to put himself under Turkey's protection… and risk turning the Libyan conflict into a direct confrontation between foreign armies. The Libyan prime minister, who [...] (681 words)

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LIBYA
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
African Union
Ahmed Gaïd Salah
CAE aviation
DGSE
Elisabetta Trenta
European Union
Fathi Bachagha
Fayez Sarraj
Federica Mogherini
Giuseppe Conte
Josep Borrell
Khalifa Haftar
Minerva Special Purpose Vehicles
National Popular Army
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Smaïl Chergui

Septimius Security bags first European embassy protection contract in Tripoli

Septimius Security has won its first European embassy security contract in Tripoli. [...]

AFRICA 30/10/2020

European Union: EEAS to appoint new Africa head

Starting next month, current Portuguese Ambassador to Denmark Rita Maria Figueiras Henriques Laranjinha will become the Africa bureau director of the European External Action Service (EEAS). [...]

Diplomat Rita Maria Figueiras Henriques Laranjinha. © Embassy of Portugal in Denmark

LIBYA 16/09/2020

Why the EU wants to remove Aguila Salah Issa from sanctions list

In its efforts to influence negotiations to end the crisis in Libya, the European Union is hoping for support from the speaker of the eastern-based parliament, despite having slapped sanctions on him in 2016. [...]

Aguila Salah Issa, speaker of the eastern-based parliament. © CC BY-SA 2.0

EGYPT LIBYA 28/08/2020

Sisi's support for Khalifa Haftar wavers Free

Fearful of a direct military confrontation with Turkey, Egypt is tempering its support for its Libyan ally and may opt to back the speaker of parliament Aguila Salah Issa. [...]

Khalifa Haftar and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in December 2019. © Egyptian Presidency/dpa

ALGERIA 21/08/2020

John O'Rourke, EU ambassador in Algeria, seeks spin doctor to talk up lacklustre performance

John O'Rourke is looking to put the best possible light on his service as the European Union ambassador in Algeria since 2016. [...]

European Union Ambassador to Algeria John O'Rourke. © European Union in Algeria/Facebook

LIBYA 26/06/2020

Turkey sets its sights on Misrata port operating concession to chagrin of France's Bolloré group

Turkey has begun talks with the government in Tripoli on the operating concession for the strategically important port of Misrata as French logistics giant Bolloré fights on for recognition of the contract it signed with Libya in 2010. [...]

LIBYA 18/06/2020

Germany, Austria to steer EU's Libya policy

Shake-up of EU's foreign delegations leaves Germany and Austria with key Libya roles. [...]

LIBYA 02/06/2020

Europe's Operation IRINI treads water

The European naval operation IRINI is still incapable of stopping arms from entering Libya, the very reason it was set up. [...]

LIBYA 05/05/2020

Italy's MED Spa sells speedboats to Tripoli coastguards before European fund closes

Giuseppe Conte's governnment signed off one last contract with the Italian firm before the European integrated border and migration management in Libya fund closes in June. [...]

LIBYA 04/05/2020

Intelligence: Paris deploys CAE Aviation to keep watch over Turkish arms supplies to Libya

France has turned to the Franco-Luxembourg firm to monitor Turkish vessels suspected of supplying arms to the west of Libya without waiting for the launch of Europe's Irini mission to enforce the embargo. [...]

ALGERIA 30/04/2020

Army still in market for mobile phone scramblers

Despite the increasing constraints on its budget, Algeria's Armée nationale populaire (ANP) is continuing to procure high-tech equipment. [...]

BURKINA FASO MALI NIGER 22/04/2020

Emirati company Minerva aims to sell its Panthera armoured vehicles in the Sahel

Emirati armoured vehicle builder Minerva Special Purpose Vehicles (MSPV) is currently prospecting in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. Abu Dhabi sees the Sahel as a key zone of military and diplomatic influence. [...]

MSPV's Panthera T2 uses Toyota Land Cruiser 79s as a base. © MSPV

LIBYA 26/03/2020

Ugur Kalkan's SM Executive Aviation opens Istanbul-Misrata line

Young Turkish air transport company San Marino Executive Aviation (SM Executive Aviation) has opened a new air link with Libya, [...]

SUDAN EUROPEAN UNION 13/03/2020

Josep Borrell follows on Frank-Walter Steinmeier's heels to Khartoum

Just two days after the German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier's visit [...]

EUROPEAN UNION 04/03/2020

Maiden Sahelian tour for Charles Michel and Josep Borrell

The president of the European Council Charles Michel and the EU's diplomat-in-chief Josep Borrell are due to embark on a tour of the G5 Sahel in mid-March. [...]

LIBYA 20/02/2020

Italians and Greeks clash over Libya

According to our sources in Brussels, Greece is already claiming the right to command the EUNAVFOR Med maritime operation off [...]

LIBYA ALGERIA 06/02/2020

Why Tebboune is warming to Haftar

By sending his foreign minister Sabri Boukadoum to meet Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi on February 5, Abdelmadjid Tebbounne has signalled [...]

AFRICAN UNION 31/01/2020

Crisis meeting to discuss Smaïl Chergui

The 33rd summit of African Union (AU) heads of state [...]

LIBYA 30/01/2020

Fayez Sarraj settles Erdogan's friend's bills

Libyan prime minister Fayez Sarraj has speeded up efforts to find a settlement with Ankara on the payment of outstanding [...]

LIBYA 16/01/2020

Fathi Bachagha blocks Fayez Sarraj-Giuseppe Conte meeting

Libyan prime minister Fayez Sarraj's unsuccessful trip to Rome on [...]

ALGERIA 09/01/2020

Libya preoccupies Saïd Chengriha and ruins the army

A political period having closed with the election of Abdelmadjid [...]

TUNISIA 09/01/2020

Saïed caught between Algiers and Ankara

Recep Tayyip Erdogan's arrival in Tunis on December 25 illustrated Kaïs Saïed's difficulties in managing Turkey and Algeria, both key [...]

LIBYA 19/12/2019

Hafedh and Gamaty to plead for Sarraj in EU

Prime minister Fayez Sarraj, who is struggling to fend off [...]

EUROPEAN UNION BENIN 18/12/2019

Josep Borrell advocates hard line against Patrice Talon

Following the decision of the Beninese government to expel the [...]

LIBYA 07/11/2019

Abdelhadi Al Houij opens up Sarraj-Conte split

After trips to Madrid and Brussels, Abdelhadi Al Houij, foreign minister in the dissident government in Benghazi, stopped over in [...]

LIBYA 31/10/2019

Fayez Sarraj tries to save his migration deal

Libyan prime minister Fayez Sarraj, who has lost credibility on the international scene, is staking his all on cooperation with [...]

DJIBOUTI AFRICAN UNION 18/10/2019

Djibouti criticises Smail Chergui for his links to Russia

The Djiboutian foreign minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf recently instructed his [...]

LIBYA 10/10/2019

Italian MEP Martusciello gets Al Houij into the European Parliament

Abdelhadi al Houij, foreign minister in the dissident Libyan government [...]

LIBYA 03/10/2019

Qatar excluded from Berlin conference

United Nations special representative for Libya Ghassan Salame is busy preparing the next "crisis exit" conference, which should take place [...]

LIBYA 12/09/2019

Future of Operation Sophia hangs in the balance

The future of the EUNAVFOR Med maritime force, aka Operation [...]

LIBYA 12/09/2019

New Italian government slides over to Khalifa Haftar

The appointment of Giuseppe Conte's new government on September 5 could provoke a veritable aggiornamento in Italian policy on Libya. [...]

LIBYA 05/09/2019

GECOL rival GAEREL revives its gas pipeline project with ENPPI

GAEREL (General Authority for Electricity and Renewable Energy of Libya), the national electricity company controlled by the dissident government in [...]

LIBYA 05/09/2019

Ahmed Miitig calls for more aid for Misrata

The departure of Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini, which brought [...]

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LIBYA 05/09/2019

The Chinese army loses its first drone in Libya

Although it is officially not present in the Libyan conflict theatre, China has just suffered its first military setback there! According to Maghreb Confidential's information, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) navy lost one of its drones in mid-August not far [. [...]

FRANCE AFRICA 28/08/2019

Intelligence Online 26/02/2020

Zeler succession: CAE keeps its autonomy

According to Intelligence Online's sources, although a number of would-be [...]

Intelligence Online 17/07/2019

Muslim Brotherhood naturalisation war underway

While Kuwait's State Security is poised to extradite a cell [...]

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