December, 2021

• 23 December

  Drone sales could dampen Turkey’s African venture

  

  Turkey has made major economic and diplomatic strides in Africa since the early 2000s, but growing military sales to African countries raise the specter of a risky shift. Dozens of top African officials, including 12 presidents, two vice presidents, two premiers and 26 foreign ministers, flocked to Istanbul last week …

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• 23 December

  Lithuania: Ready To Send Lethal Weapons To Support Ukraine

  

  Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said that Lithuania is ready to support Ukraine, including supplying weapons. On Sunday, Arvydas Anusauskas, Lithuania’s Defence Minister, decreed that they were ready to supply Ukraine with any weapons as support to the country. The Defense Minister exposed that only when the victims have the means …

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• 23 December

  Death Toll Rises To 47 After Weekend Attacks in Nigeria

  

  President Buhari said that security forces have turned the heat on terrorists “who are getting frustrated and are soft-targeting innocent citizens, looting their assets, burning their homes and killing them indiscriminately.” The death toll from weekend attacks on villages in Nigeria’s northern state of Kaduna has risen to 38 as …

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• 23 December

  Cuba To Inaugurate New Floating Power Plant

  

  This Turkish plant is moored in the bay of Havana and will provide about 130 megawatts to the national electric system, to which it was connected through the Melones substation. Energy Minister Livan Arronde announced that a new floating power plant arrived in Cuba on November 18 and will come …

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• 23 December

  Navy Sends Iran and China A Message With High Energy Laser Test In Gulf Of Aden

  

  A press release from 5th Fleet Public Affairs(NAVCENT) gave a dry report of the USS Portland testing a high-energy laser weapon system while underway in the Gulf of Aden; “During the demonstration, the Solid State Laser – Technology Maturation Laser Weapons System Demonstrator (LWSD) Mark 2 MOD 0 aboard Portland …

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• 23 December

  Joe Biden and NATO Ally Don’t Want Their Own Troops Reining in Russia on Ukraine

  

  President Joe Biden and a key U.S. ally have both rejected the idea of using their respective country’s troops to rein in Russia, as tens of thousands of President Vladimir Putin‘s troops amass at the country’s border with Ukraine. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace appeared to rule out deploying troops …

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• 23 December

  L’Europa e Putin: il grande gioco del gas

  Nord Stream 2: il nuovo governo tedesco, prima Baerbock, poi Scholz e infine Habeck, hanno ripetuto che il gasdotto non può diventare operativo perché non rispetta le regole della concorrenza vigenti nell’Ue E se fossero i funzionari di Bruxelles e Berlino, con la benevola negligenza del governo tedesco, a dare …

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• 23 December

  Afinal o que quer Putin?

  O Kremlin quer respostas rápidas às suas exigências sabendo que Putin colocou muito alto a fasquia, o que tornará as conversações morosas e difíceis. E ele jamais está disposto a fazer figura de fraco As propostas feitas por Vladimir Putin para normalizar as relações com a NATO e os Estados …

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• 23 December

  Turkey and Egypt Open the Door to a Diplomatic Thaw

  

  In mid-March, Turkey and Egypt confirmed they’d had their first diplomatic contact since breaking off relations in 2013. Though the talks were described by Egyptian sources as preliminary, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying, “Contacts at the diplomatic level have started.” The thaw comes after a decade …

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• 23 December

  Mozambique Could Become Africa’s Next Piracy Hot Spot

  

  On March 24, Ansar al-Sunna, a militant group linked to the Islamic State, launched a bloody attack on the coastal town of Palma, in northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, leaving at least 61 dead and scores more unaccounted for. The assault, which lasted more than a week and took place …

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