The foreign powers competing to win influence in Africa
Continent finds itself wooed by many, but few countries have yet devised a strategy to take full advantage By David…
Nigerian Navy lays keel for offshore patrol vessels in Turkey
Ngozi James Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (Rtd) has performed the keel laying ceremony for two …
The call of the south
Turkey is making a big diplomatic and corporate push into Africa
•It is sending engineers and soap operas, but also guns and soldiers The Recep Tayyip Erdogan hospital in Mogadishu, the capital…
Turkey is the arms industry’s new upstart
•It has won clients in Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, Ukraine and elsewhere It has left a trail of smouldering Russian-made tanks, trucks…
Ukraine: Germany, France on diplomatic pivot to Washington and Moscow as UK, Turkey step up defence efforts
In meeting with Putin, with Ukraine issue looming large, French president says he hopes to find answers to security issues…
Syria’s Kurds wanted autonomy, they hot an endless war
•The Kurds of northeastern Syria dreamed of establishing an autonomous, multiethnic and gender-equal utopia. Instead, their breakaway region has been…
Turkey’s drone diplomacy: Lessons for Europe
Bayraktar TB2 drone Runway Image by Bayhaluk CC BY-SA
Ethiopia’s drone wars: Iran, China and Turkey deliver the air power behind Abiy’s resurgence
By Fred Harter Since August, Ethiopia’s military has assembled a diverse fleet of Iranian, Chinese and Turkish drones. It has proved…