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Rome shields investments from Turkey's insatiability

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AFRICA TURKEY

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. [...]

Luigi Di Maio (left) and Mevlüt Çavusoglu, respectively Foreign Ministers of Italy and Turkey. © Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey

Italy feels threatened by Turkey's growing influence in Libya and is working night and day to save its economic interests both inland and out in the Mediterranean Sea. [...] (398 words)

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Grimaldi
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Gruppo Messina
Impregilo
Iveco
Jens Stoltenberg
Khalifa Haftar
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Mevlüt Çavusoglu
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Faced with a new government in Libya, Draghi favours continuity and focuses on oil

Caught off guard by the GNA's new interim government, Italy, now led by Mario Draghi, has chosen to maintain its diplomatic approach and concentrate its efforts on oil. Nathalie Tocci will advise the new prime minister in these matters. [...]

The new president of the Italian council, Mario Draghi. © Di Meo/Pool Afpa/Eidon/MaxPPP

SOUTH AFRICA FRANCE 04/01/2021

Setback for consultant Patrick Landau in his litigation with Alstom

Tens of thousands of confidential documents are going to be returned to the French company Alstom. They had been seized on the instructions of the French consultant Patrick Landau, who is seeking compensation for the role he played in securing various contracts in South Africa. [...]

LIBYA 24/12/2020

Italy's diplomats and intelligence agents seek rapprochement between Libya's east and west

The rapprochement that Italy is seeking to engineer between General Haftar and Ahmed Miitig is economically as well as diplomatically motivated and has already resulted in the release of Italian fishermen detained by the strongman of the east. [...]

Libyan General Khalifa Haftar (right) and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte (left). © FILIPPO ATTILI/EPA/MAXPPP

LIBYA 20/11/2020

Italy refuses to let up as Turkey continues offensive

Italy would like to work with the Libyan government to revive contracts run by Italian firms and keep control of border and migration management. [...]

ALGERIA EGYPT 24/09/2020

Presidential spokesman Belaid Mohand-Oussaid tipped as Cairo ambassador Free

If he inherits the Cairo ambassador post, the ex-diplomat and current spokesman for President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will have to tread a fine line, with Egypt and Algeria at loggerheads over the situation in Libya. [...]

FRANCE LIBYA 21/09/2020

MP-turned-consultant Pierre Lellouche returns to the Libya debate

L'ancien secrétaire d'Etat chargé du commerce extérieur et ex-député français Pierre Lellouche se replonge dans les affaires libyennes. [...]

The former secretary of state in charge of foreign trade and former French deputy Pierre Lellouche. © Korbi Yann/ABACA/Reuters

LIBYA 20/07/2020

Airport, coastguard, oil: Giuseppe Conte tries to survive Erdogan's onslaught

To preserve its economic and security interests in Libya against Ankara, Rome is trying to get closer to Fayez Sarraj's government in Tripoli. [...]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in January 2020. © Reuters

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ALGERIA TURKEY 20/07/2020

Allab, Tosyali, Bora and Demiral blaze trail for Erdogan's Algerian business crusade

A small group of Turkish and Algerian billionaires are serving as the advance guard for President Erdogan in Algeria. They stand ready to replace French entepreneurs, who are increasingly losing support in the North African country, and compete with the omnipresent Chinese. [...]

Sadat and Security Side are carrying out a training mission among the government's forces. © Reuters

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LIBYA 08/06/2020

Turkish military company Sadat turns Erdogan-Sarraj alliance into business opportunity

Turkish paramilitary company Sadat, headed by former Turkish general Adnan Tanriverdi, has set up a partnership with Fawzi Boukatif-led Libyan company Security Side to train the forces fighting for Fayez Sarraj's Government of National Accord. [...]

LIBYA 27/05/2020

Erdogan sets up air bridge to Tripoli and Misrata to counter Haftar

Turkey is further strengthening its military presence in Libya, where it supports the government led by Fayez Sarraj in Tripoli against Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA). [...]

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 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 19/12/2019

Italian intelligence strengthens its relations with Khalifa Haftar

Khalifa Haftar, who has been invited to go to Rome [...]

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 13/09/2018

Italy reassures its western allies

Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte is working flat out to prepare the Libyan "peace" conference he wants to organize in [...]

LIBYA 08/03/2018

Luigi Di Maio set to reset Italy's Libyan policy

Italy's March 4 legislative elections, which were won with a [...]

LIBYA 12/10/2017

Haftar uses gas to bargain with Rome

The capture of the city of Sabratha by militias supporting Khalifa Haftar on October 6 will reinforce the eastern general's [...]

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LIBYA 01/06/2017

Tripoli fighting could facilitate Haftar-Sarraj deal

The fighting which rocked Tripoli from May 26 to 29 could paradoxically smooth the path towards a political alliance between prime minister Fayez Sarraj and eastern Libyan strong man Khalifa Haftar. The militias will nevertheless remain very much centre stage. [...]

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Faced with a new government in Libya, Draghi favours continuity and focuses on oil

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Italy's diplomats and intelligence agents seek rapprochement between Libya's east and west

Italy refuses to let up as Turkey continues offensive

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MP-turned-consultant Pierre Lellouche returns to the Libya debate

Airport, coastguard, oil: Giuseppe Conte tries to survive Erdogan's onslaught

Allab, Tosyali, Bora and Demiral blaze trail for Erdogan's Algerian business crusade

Turkish military company Sadat turns Erdogan-Sarraj alliance into business opportunity

Erdogan sets up air bridge to Tripoli and Misrata to counter Haftar

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

Fayez Sarraj settles Erdogan's friend's bills

Italian intelligence strengthens its relations with Khalifa Haftar

New Italian government slides over to Khalifa Haftar

Italy reassures its western allies

Luigi Di Maio set to reset Italy's Libyan policy

Haftar uses gas to bargain with Rome

Tripoli fighting could facilitate Haftar-Sarraj deal

After Syria and Libya, Ankara makes moves in Yemen

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Faced with a new government in Libya, Draghi favours continuity and focuses on oil

Setback for consultant Patrick Landau in his litigation with Alstom

Italy's diplomats and intelligence agents seek rapprochement between Libya's east and west

Italy refuses to let up as Turkey continues offensive

Presidential spokesman Belaid Mohand-Oussaid tipped as Cairo ambassador Free

MP-turned-consultant Pierre Lellouche returns to the Libya debate

Airport, coastguard, oil: Giuseppe Conte tries to survive Erdogan's onslaught

Allab, Tosyali, Bora and Demiral blaze trail for Erdogan's Algerian business crusade

Turkish military company Sadat turns Erdogan-Sarraj alliance into business opportunity

Erdogan sets up air bridge to Tripoli and Misrata to counter Haftar

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

Fayez Sarraj settles Erdogan's friend's bills

Italian intelligence strengthens its relations with Khalifa Haftar

New Italian government slides over to Khalifa Haftar

Italy reassures its western allies

Luigi Di Maio set to reset Italy's Libyan policy

Haftar uses gas to bargain with Rome

Tripoli fighting could facilitate Haftar-Sarraj deal

After Syria and Libya, Ankara makes moves in Yemen

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