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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. [...]

Published on 02/02/2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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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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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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Embaló snubs Turkish business

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.

Le président bissau-guinéen Umaro Sissoco Embaló.

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Erdogan plays mediator for Embalo

Ever since Umaro Sissoco Embalo stepped into power in Guinea-Bissau early last year, the Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been working to build an unexpected and unprecedented connection between the two countries.

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Erdogan's Sahelian manoeuvres

Deprived of his principal ally in Africa by the ousting of the Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been looking to the west of the continent to compensate for this loss of influence.

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