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Embaló snubs Turkish business

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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. [...]

Le président bissau-guinéen Umaro Sissoco Embaló. © ANDRE KOSTERS/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

A Turkish protégé since his 2019 election, Guinea-Bissau president Umaro Sissoco Embaló has not returned the favour, preferring to use an Emirati operator rather than a Turkish conglomerate for the future Bissau airport build. [...]

Published on 01.12.2020 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Guinea Bissau
Embaló continues his never-ending world tour in Cairo and Jeddah

The Guinea-Bissau leader Umaro Sissoco Embaló is constantly globetrotting in search of potential investors and these days hardly bothers to unpack his case in Bissau between two trips.

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Guinean president Umaro Sissoco Embaló was received on 4 March 2021 by his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

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Turkey's diplomats pave the way for Erdogan's African Show

In the run-up to the African Union summit on 6 and 7 February in Addis Ababa, Turkish diplomats are pulling out all the stops to ensure that the third Turkey-Africa summit, scheduled for September, features prominently on the agenda.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (foreground) and African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat (background).

Guinea Bissau
Embaló picks Qatar as first Gulf conquest

The Guinea-Bissau president is hoping to reel in petrodollars from the Gulf monarchies to get his Covid-battered economy back on track. The country's first ever ambassador to Qatar began work in early January.

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Guinea Bissau, West Africa
Strauss-Kahn pitch to Embaló

In Bissau on 15 January to meet with President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, the former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has offered to help Guinea Bissau raise Chinese funding for infrastructure projects.

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Meeting between Dominique Strauss-Kahn (left) and Guinea Bissau head of state Umaro Sissoco Embaló, Bissau, 15 January.

DRC
Turkey's Summa keen for business in Kinshasa

The Turkish group Summa is in talks with the Congolese authorities over an opportunity to take over the N'Djili international airport upgrades in what would be its first move in the country.

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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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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

West Africa
Embaló snubs Turkish business

Guinea Bissau
Embaló continues his never-ending world tour in Cairo and Jeddah

Spotlight | Africa, Turkey
Turkey's diplomats pave the way for Erdogan's African Show

Guinea Bissau
Embaló picks Qatar as first Gulf conquest

Guinea Bissau, West Africa
Strauss-Kahn pitch to Embaló

DRC
Turkey's Summa keen for business in Kinshasa

Guinea Bissau
Embaló wants to declare war on parliament

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

Guinea Bissau, Turkey
Erdogan plays mediator for Embalo

Spotlight | West Africa
Erdogan's Sahelian manoeuvres

West Africa
Karpower and Aksa forging Ankara's position on the continent