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Vol 53 No 2
20th January 2012

Famine fallout

The slowness of the international response to the developing famine in the Horn of Africa last year needlessly cost thousands of lives, says a report by Oxfam and Save the Children. Sources familiar with north-eastern Kenya and Somalia, however, tell Afri...

Vol 50 No 18
11th September 2009

Food crisis

Food security in the wider Horn of Africa has worsened dramatically over the past year. Some 24 million people are now unable to meet basic food needs across East Africa and the Horn. The global financial crisis is intensifying the effects of drought, con...

Vol 49 No 22
31st October 2008

Two brutal stalemates

Somali politicians negotiate in Nairobi; and a gulf remains between Eritrea and Ethiopia

Vol 49 No 12
6th June 2008

Correction

In AC Vol 49 No 11, in the article on Dijibouti/Eritrea, we incorrectly stated that Eritrea had severed diplomatic ties with Qatar. In fact, we had intended to refer to Ethiopia’s severing of ties with Qatar in April, when it accused the Gulf State of fom...

Vol 47 No 18
8th September 2006

A threat to the Horn and beyond

Rising tension between the regimes of President Yusuf and Chairman Aweys could escalate into a regional war

Vol 43 No 18
13th September 2002

Volunteers?

Refugees in the Horn are worried. The budget of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is falling. In Kenya, the operational budget was US$23.4 million in 1999 and is $15 mn. in 2001. In Kakuma camp, meagre rations have been cut for the 68,000 ...

Vol 42 No 24
7th December 2001

The focus shifts

After dislodging the Taliban in Afghanistan the USA has north-east Africa in its sights

Vol 40 No 10
14th May 1999

Regional collisions

The Eritrea-Ethiopia war is helping the Islamist regime in Khartoum and further destabilising Djibouti and Somalia

Vol 40 No 10
14th May 1999

Eritrea and its cousins

The odds are stacked against Eritrea. Ethiopia has a bigger and better equipped army and airforce, and a bigger population and economy to sustain a long war. But President Issayas Afeworki tells visitors not to forget history: little Eritrea took on and...

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