Horn of Africa: Its Intractable Dilemmas

the geopolitical analysis of piracy in the horn of africa

extended abstractintroductionafter the cold war, geostrategic face took on a geo-economic domain. this means that on the world stage, economic competition, replaced military competition. hence the geopolitical divisions, geographic areas classified according to their economic importance and competition has intensified around the area. given that the earth is 4/3 with water and based on the theo...

Early Back-to-Africa Migration into the Horn of Africa

Genetic studies have identified substantial non-African admixture in the Horn of Africa (HOA). In the most recent genomic studies, this non-African ancestry has been attributed to admixture with Middle Eastern populations during the last few thousand years. However, mitochondrial and Y chromosome data are suggestive of earlier episodes of admixture. To investigate this further, we generated new...

Past and future rainfall in the Horn of Africa

The recent decline in Horn of Africa rainfall during the March-May "long rains" season has fomented drought and famine, threatening food security in an already vulnerable region. Some attribute this decline to anthropogenic forcing, whereas others maintain that it is a feature of internal climate variability. We show that the rate of drying in the Horn of Africa during the 20th century is unusu...

Humanitarian response inadequate in Horn of Africa crisis.

On a bed in the fi eld hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an emaciated child, barely more than a stick fi gure, reaches out shakily to its mother’s back for support. But the mother is sitting on the edge of the bed with her back to the child, staring into space. She does not turn around. In the next bed, another refugee, Khadija, holds her 10-month-old son. They are doing slightly ...

Wealth Index Mapping in the Horn of Africa