Turkey-Somalia Relations: A Decade of Substantial Strategic Cooperation
ugust 2021 marked a decade of multifaceted cooperation between Somalia and Turkey.
Turkey’s Reliable Diplomacy in the Somalia-Somaliland Talks
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From Cooperation to Conflict: The UAE’s Deepening Crisis with Somalia and Djibouti
This can be seen from Turkey’s increasing relations with Somalia, China and Russia’s decision to establish military bases and the United Arab Emirates’ economic and military activities taking place particularly in Somalia and Djibouti.
A Global Storm Is Brewing: Leaders Must Immediately Tackle Inflation
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the WFP have placed Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen on the “highest alert,” with 750,000 people facing starvation and death.
African Politics, Tribal Violence, and Socio-Economic Rivalry in Africa
Read: Is China Buying Out Africa?The continuous political and security instability in Somalia may be regarded as a convergence of clan-based rule, national politics, and militancy.
Managing the Rivalry between the UAE and Turkey
The UAE’s latest diplomatic moves towards Turkey reveal that there is a consensus to cooperate economically despite political differences.
Turkey is the New Strategic Player in Africa
Read: Turkey-Somalia Relations: A Decade of Substantial Strategic CooperationTurkey's investment as well as cultural activities in Africa have become diverse, and implemented by top governmental bodies including Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), Yunus Emre Institute, the Turkish Maarif Foundation, Anadolu Agency, Turkish Airlines (THY) and the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) and the Turkish Religious Foundation.
Sudan and Turkey Head towards Strategic Cooperation?
In an op-ed, Justice Minister of Somalia Abdulkadir Mohammad Nur stated that Turkey is the hope for African countries to stabilize their democratic political structures.
Turkey’s UAV Breakthrough Creates Another Path to MENA
Moreover, several Middle Eastern and African countries such as Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Egypt expressed interest in purchasing the Turkish UAVs in the future.
What the Return of Mercenaries Means for the World Politics
Since 2015, mercenaries have flourished in Yemen, Libya, Nigeria, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Mozambique, Central African Republic, and Venezuela.
Two-State Solution for Cyprus Difficult, But Not Impossible
In this writer's humble opinion, asides from Azerbaijan, other potential candidates to recognize the TRNC include Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, Nigeria, Venezuela, Cuba, Libya and - perhaps as a real game-changer - Qatar.
How Djibouti Surrounded Itself by Military Bases
In addition to this, the weak security environments in Yemen and Somalia have also increased Djibouti’s significance.
AfCFTA and Pan-Africanism: Do China and the US Have a Role in the Agreement?
In East Africa, there is an ongoing conflict between Somalia and Kenya over a maritime border dispute, rising tension between Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), and a border crisis between Sudan and Ethiopia, while Nigeria in West Africa recently opened its land borders with neighbors which were closed for 16 months.
Why Many Liberation Movements Fail at Government
Where it is a problem, as in Somalia and South Sudan, this is invariably because the movement was itself divided, with deep underlying weaknesses, and won out more because of the failures of the incumbent regime than of any strengths of its own.
All-Out-War between Ethiopia and Sudan on the Doorstep?
History shows that in the 1970s Sudan under the leadership of Jaafar Muhammad Nimeiry made a similar move while Ethiopia was fighting the Ogaden War with Somalia.
People of Color and Politics in the West: A New Trend?
Leaving behind a war-torn country, Ilhan Omar arrived in the United States as a refugee from Somalia and is a U.
Piracy and the Global Military Presence in the Gulf of Aden
Overall, on different occasions, their involvement in the counter-piracy operations on the Somalia coast has been portrayed as a morally justified act to maintain law and order in the strategically important waterway through which more than 33,000 ships navigate annually.
Corona Is For All And There Are Lessons To Be Learnt Globally
Kenyans distributing food and aid to the daily laborers that live in the slums of Nairobi who were affected by the curfews, Japan offering warm support to China at the height of the crisis in Wuhan, Turkey sending aid to Iran, Italy, Spain, and the Balkans, and Somalia sending 20 doctors to Italy, are a great start to governments collaborating positively during the crisis, which can be built upon in the future.
Peace to Prosperity or Peace for Jared Kushner?
Algeria, Libya, Somalia, Oman and Kuwait did not clearly state their position on the meeting, but they were reluctant to providing public support.
To Counter Turkey, Saudi Arabia Backs the YPG in Syria
Pushing back against Turkish influence in Syria, as well as throughout the greater Arab/Islamic world from Somalia to Iraq and Qatar to Libya, requires the unity of powerful Arab states, naturally making Saudi Arabia a key player in this regard from Abu Dhabi’s standpoint.
