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defenceWeb Written by ISSAfrica - 187 Is Turkey’s expanding African footprint also a proxy battleground for Erdoğan’s Middle East and European rivalries? Without much fanfare, Turkey has steadily spread its political, economic and even military foothold across Africa. It’s gone from just 12 embassies and US$100 million in foreign direct investment in 2003 to 42 embassies and US$6.5 billion in 2021. Plus a five-fold increase in trade from 2003 to 2019 and 51 African cities now served by ...

Making Turkey great again Search Polity Note: Search is limited to the most recent 250 articles. To access earlier articles, click Advanced Search and set an earlier date range. To search for a term containing the & symbol, click Advanced Search and use the search headings and/or in first paragraph options. With... Clear Search Sponsored by Sponsored by Without much fanfare, Turkey has steadily spread its political, economic and even military foothold across Africa. It’s gone from just 12 em...

Shares Pula Advisors and M-KOPA have received received funding from AfDB to research on women’s access to digital financial services. The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the two grants for research that will increase African women’s access to digital financial services including loans and micro-insurance. The grants, for Ksh. 110 million ($1 million) and Ksh. 33 million ($300,000) respectively, will be disbursed through the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion (ADFI) facility. Th...

AfDB’s Board Approves $1.024 Million Grant for 3 African Countries AfDB’s Board Approves $1.024 Million Grant for 3 African Countries African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Board of Directors has approved a grant of $1.024 million for artificial intelligence enabled systems to process customer complaints on behalf of the national banks of Ghana and Rwanda and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission of Zambia. The grant resources are from the special fund of the Africa Digital Financ...

Equatorial Guinea: Bata Explosions, Flash Update No.2, 9 March 2021 Format HIGHLIGHTS The death toll from the Bata explosions climbs to 105. At least 615 people were injured, out of which 132 remain hospitalized. UNOSAT satellite imagery shows the blast caused widespread damage over an 800-meter radius. Initial assessments confirm that approximately 300 houses were destroyed at the military compound alone. The main COVID-19 PCR testing laboratory in Bata suffered significant damage. Large numbe...

191 shares This TVGE image made from video shows smoke rising over the blast site at a military barracks in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, March 7, 2021. (TVGE via AP) Israel on Tuesday announced it was sending a medical team to Equatorial Guinea, following deadly blasts at a military camp in the African country. The joint Health Ministry-Israel Defense Forces delegation will include intensive care physicians, pediatricians, and other medical specialists, according to a Health Ministry statemen...

Rights groups have called for a transparent and independent investigation into a series of massive explosions in Equatorial Guinea’s main city of Bata that flattened a military camp and nearby residential areas, killing scores of people and causing widespread destruction. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has ruled the oil-rich country with an iron fist for 42 years, blamed the military for “negligence” in stocking ammunition so close to populated areas. On Wednesday, state television ...

Blasts that levelled a military camp and the surrounding populated area in Equatorial Guinea at the weekend claimed far more lives than the official death toll of 105, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, urging an independent investigation into the disaster.

Blasts Kill 105, Injures 600 in Equatorial Guinea, 3-Day Mourning Declared Published March 10th, 2021 - 01:00 GMT Equatorial Guinea (Twitter) Highlights Following the explosions, Foreign Minister Simeon Oyono Esono Angue pleaded for international support and described the situation as catastrophic. Equatorial Guineans are observing a three-day national mourning to pay tribute to the victims of Sunday’s explosions that have claimed at least 105 lives so far and injured over 600. On Wedne...

A number of countries have arrived on the scene in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, to help the government with rescue services three days after a blast at the barracks in the centre of town killed more than 100 and maimed 615.