Africa Intelligence: Turkey and Qatar in play as Farmajo’s wild cards

[Bohol]

Turkey and Qatar in play as Farmajo’s wild cards


09/06/2017

Turkey has rushed to Qatar’s aid in the crisis pitting Doha against the Gulf monarchies by dispatching troops. But Recep Tayip Erdogan has also confirmed a decision to send 300 soldiers to Mogadishu in August to man a Turkish base currently being built (ION nº1449) and train the Somali National Army (SNA).

The Turkish president and his Somali counterpart, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo will both inaugurate the base that can house 3,000 men. With Turkey also offering strategic assistance Farmajo realizes he has Ankara’s blessings in throwing Somalia’s lot in with Qatar.

During his trip to Doha on May 25 he asked Qatar’s leader, Tamin bin Hamad Al Thani, for cash to pay SNA’s troops. He also pointed to the ongoing threat from the Al Shabaab Islamist movement (ION nº1451), saying it has "shown no sign of weakening".

Al Thani reportedly gave him $6 million meet the most urgent needs but insisted Farmajo produce a detailed list of his government's economic and social priorities. When the meeting wound up, the Qatari and Somali foreign ministers, Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al Thani and Yusuf Garaad Omar, praised Qatar’s strategic role in Somalia and the Horn of Africa. But many are wondering whether Saudi Arabia’s decision on June 5 to cut ties with Doha will curb Qatar’s capacity to wield influence in Africa.


https://www.africaintelligence.com/...in-play-as-farmajo-s-wild-cards,108249072-ART

 

[Bohol]

Al Thani Emir of Qatar gave Somalia $6 million for the SNA. Turkey is also building a base in Mogadishu that can house up to 3,000 soldiers.

 

[Abumaas]

Bro can you show us this;

The Djibouti prime minister upsets Farmajo


https://www.africaintelligence.com/...e-prime-minister-upsets-farmajo,108249073-ART

much appreciated

 

[Bohol]

Bro can you show us this;

The Djibouti prime minister upsets Farmajo


https://www.africaintelligence.com/...e-prime-minister-upsets-farmajo,108249073-ART

much appreciated

It is not that interesting, it is about the Afar PM of Djibouti's recent casual visit to Somaliland. Overall Djibouti supports unity of Somalia as they don't want Djibouti port out of business otherwise.

 

[Abumaas]

It is not that interesting, it is about the Afar PM of Djibouti's recent casual visit to Somaliland. Overall Djibouti supports unity of Somalia as they don't want Djibouti port out of business otherwise.

Thanks so much brother

 

[Prince of Lasanod]

https://www.africaintelligence.com/...t-opening-door-to-issa-refugees,108227408-BRE

Could you check this one please?

 

[Bohol]

https://www.africaintelligence.com/...t-opening-door-to-issa-refugees,108227408-BRE

Could you check this one please?

Afars against opening door to Issa refugees


The Afar inhabitants of the village of As Eyla in the Gobaad region (Dikhil district in the country’s south-west) demonstrated on March 17 against an on-going project to allow displaced Somali/Issa persons from Ethiopia to take up residence in Bakare. The project was an initiative by the Djibouti’s health minister and son-in-law of the presidential couple, Djama Elmi Okieh (a k a Djama Speed). The local population is against a community of Issas springing up on the territory of the Debne confederation adjacent to the Afar National Regional State (ANRS) in Ethiopia. Towards the end of last year the traditional chief of the village in the Gobaad region, sultan Habib Mohamed Loita a k a Habib Boko protested directly about the project to the government, publicly voicing his concerns during a meeting with the Afar diaspora in Belgium. His outburst did not draw a response from president Ismail Omar Guelleh’s government. Recently, however, Issa nomads displaced in Ethiopia clashed with Afars in the region. With the deterioration in the humanitarian situation, the movement to oppose the project to house Ethiopian Somali/Issa refugees took form at a meeting on March 3 in Djibouti concerning development of the Gobaad region. Numerous personalities from the region took part in the meeting, including legislator Abatte Ebo Adou. As with the Lake Assal affair (ION 1445), protests by the Afar community won the discreet backing of presidential affairs minister Ali Guelleh Aboubaker. He has never missed an occasion to snipe at Djama Speed since the latter showed he had designs on the Lake Assal area, where Aboubaker has major economic interests (ION 1438).

 

[Abdalla]

https://www.africaintelligence.com/...t-opening-door-to-issa-refugees,108227408-BRE

Could you check this one please?

Did you ask him to pay for an article that you want? Typical

 

[Prince of Lasanod]

Did you ask him to pay for an article that you want? Typical

He has a subscription if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Bohol]

He has a subscription if I'm not mistaken.

It is pay per article (I only focus on the Somalia political scene). This one was just 1.6 Euros
so pretty cheap.

 

[Prince of Lasanod]

It is pay per article (I only focus on the Somalia political scene). This one was just 1.6 Euros
so pretty cheap.

I wouldn't have asked if I had known that you didn't have a subscription. That was my assumption since you posted a lot of threads about Africa Intelligence.

But thanks.

 

[Ferrari]

Let's be beggars for now, milk the turks and the qataris. We should bring up the aid we've lost due to refusing to end relations with them and ask them to fill that void. If we are going to beg, let's do it right and big.

 

[gurey]

It is pay per article (I only focus on the Somalia political scene). This one was just 1.6 Euros
so pretty cheap.

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