Africa has got a lot of advantages that have been realized by global powers, namely: economic wealth, strategic areas and water resources. Those formed, beside the continent states’ need for development, an entrance for such powers to infiltrate into it. The Middle East had its share of this competition, either be the non-Arab middle eastern states such as Iran, which considered Africa its gate to permeate the world, Turkey which found out that it has no colonial legacies in Africa, which allows it to enter into the continent to achieve its interests, Israel which seeks to exploit the voting power of Africa in international forums to get out of its isolation, or finally the Arab Gulf powers which seek to face the Iranian influence in the continent and secure their seaports through maintaining their relation with the states of the Horn of Africa.
This study attempts to shed light on the forms of Middle Eastern regional competition around Africa, its importance and impacts on security, political, and economic levels.
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