Egypt extends conflict with Turkey to African Sahel
Egypt extends conflict with Turkey to African Sahel President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and President of Mauritania Mohammad Veled Abdulaziz (R) hold a joint press conference in Mauritania on 28 February 2018 [Raşit Aydoğan/Anadolu Agency] January 16, 2021 at 2:14 pm Cairo has made its conflict against Ankara a foreign policy priority, rendering all regions a potential battleground, even the African Sahel region, which has generally been excluded from the focus of the Egyptian state. The Intelligence Online website added that after Libya and the Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt is...