Will the Biden Administration Bring the Saudi-Emirati Partnership to Account?
However, the Biden-Harris administration may force the Saudi-Emirati administrations to end their activities in Yemen, Sudan, and Libya.
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.
Challenging the African Migration Narrative
Migrants mainly from Congo Brazaville, Guinea Conakry, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroon, Mali, Liberia, Nigeria, Gambia, Eritrea, Sudan, Tchad seek to reach Europe by landing on the Moroccan coasts or through the borders of Ceuta and Melilla.
Gulf Regional Rift Mended but Will It Extend to Turkey?
The failed coup in Turkey in 2016, the unjust blockade of Qatar in 2017, the Arab duo’s constant support of counterrevolutionary forces in Syria, Libya, and Sudan, and their anti-Turkey stance in the Eastern Mediterranean, have vitiated any chance to recuperate the fraught ties between Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
The Last Remaining Arms Control Treaty between the US and Russia Expires Soon: An Interview with Rebecca Davis Gibbons on the New START
It is also true that South Sudan is not in the treaty, but I assume that at some point in the future, they will join.
Is the UAE-Saudi Political Alliance Sustainable?
In addition, the UAE’s decision to normalize relations with Israel, pulling Bahrain and Sudan along, substantiated the divergence, caused further discomfort, and attested to the loss of a mutual vision on regional leadership between the two.
Modern-Day Orientalists Have Never Understood the Arab Spring
Indeed, when the Arab Spring started or ended is up for debate: the protests in Sudan and Algeria in 2019 that toppled dictatorial regimes underlined the intricate complexity of politics in the Arab world in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
Piracy and the Global Military Presence in the Gulf of Aden
They ignored the capacity of regional powers such as, among others, Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea, and Sudan, in the fight against piracy.
The UN, Corruption and Scandals: How Did We Get Here?
"It's not surprising to see the UN would drag their heels an issue like sexual misconduct with their sordid record of covering-up sexual abuse and human trafficking in places like Bosnia, Haiti, Sudan and the Congo, and who knows where else” he says.
The UAE’s Strategic Redeployment in Yemen
The UAE has been increasingly involved in conflicts in the region, including Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen.
Is Drowning Immigrants the EU’s New Strategy?
They also support –both diplomatically and materially- Khalifa Haftar’s militia in Libya, and Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – all groups that kill, torture, maim and enslave immigrants in North Africa and sabotaging democracy in Sudan respectively.
Middle East Politics on the Brink of Collapse
The recent popular uprisings in Algeria and Sudan illustrate that the spirit of the Arab revolutions is still alive and has the potential to affect regional political dynamics.
Is Israel Knocking on the Doors of Gehenna?
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring in 2010, the civil wars that erupted in Syria, Yemen, and Libya, together with the tensions in Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, and Palestine, are all signs of an on-going covert war in the region.
A Tale of Two Erdogans: How The West Went Rogue on Turkey
More recent years have seen Turkey expand its economic and cultural connectivity throughout Africa with investment projects and visits by major Turkish officials becoming ever more common from South Africa to Sudan.
Jordan: Silent Brother in Gulf Politics
While Saudi Arabia’s relations with a number of Arab monarchies have experienced some strain such as Kuwait and Oman as well as outright diplomatic crises in the case of Qatar and Morocco, Jordan is seeking to gain greater autonomy from Riyadh’s geopolitical orbit at a time in which more players in the Arab world are growing more unsettled by vague Saudi reactions towards some regional issues including the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Algeria and Lebanon.
Turkey’s Reliable Diplomacy in the Somalia-Somaliland Talks
It is these ambiguities that made the international community to hesitate from recognizing Somaliland – the Eritrean dictatorial regime and the South-Sudan civil war made matters even worse for Somaliland’s prospective secession.
Egypt’s Rise in the African Political Landscape: A Regional Power?
Since 2017, Sisi has visited Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Chad, Gabon, and Sudan, while hosting the leaders of South Africa, Congo, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda in Egypt.
Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia: Bandwagon or Hegemony?
Furthermore, PM Abiy also hosted another trilateral summit with leaders of Sudan and Djibouti in Jimma, Ethiopia.
Why Arab Countries are Changing their Strategies Towards Syria
This call was supported by countries such as Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and a number of Gulf countries.
Some Arab countries attempting to fill the power vacuum after US withdrawal from Syria
Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir was the first Arab League leader to visit Syria (on December 16) in an official meeting since the beginning of the civil war.
