Turkey’s growing footprint in Africa
Ulf Laessing, the head of the Sahel program at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Foundation, joins Thanos Davelis to look at how Turkey’s influence in Africa has boomed over the past two decades, particularly in the Sahel. Turkey’s focus on Africa comes as a number of so-called “middle powers” are also vying to gain a larger foothold on the continent.