Qatar invades Africa !
esjr, Sunday, 14 Mar 2021 @ 17:02
We've seen Qatar's on-going Moroccan affair which also started with an apparent test flight followed by a flurry of flights in the space of a few days followed by more or less frequent flights by individual aircraft and now we see a similar pattern involving central Africa, Rwanda specifically and the small island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
After an apparent test flight to Kigali on 26/02 we're now clearly in the flurry phase :

11/03

Two C-17s fly from Qatar into Africa and disappear over Sudan.
11 Mar 2021
XJD -  
Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
11 Mar 2021
XJD -  
Boeing C-17A Globemaster III

12/03

Two C-17s fly from Qatar into Africa and disappear over Sudan.
12 Mar 2021
XJD -  
Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
12 Mar 2021
XJD -  
Boeing C-17A Globemaster III

13/03

The two C-17s of 11/03 reappear over Sudan and fly to Istanbul in Turkey.
13 Mar 2021
  - SAW
Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
13 Mar 2021
  - SAW
Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
The C-17s of 12/03 return to Qatar from Malabo on Bioko.
13 Mar 2021
SSG - XJD
Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
13 Mar 2021
SSG - XJD
Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
The yet another two C-17s leave Qatar for Africa. One, LHOB254, lands in Rwanda as presumably does the other.
13 Mar 2021
XJD -  
Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
13 Mar 2021
XJD -  
Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
In the case of Morocco a link with the Abraham Accords could be imagined but what is Qatar's invasion of central Africa and little Bioko about ?
This will have to be watched !