Insecurity in the Horn of Africa and the role of IGAD

2022 ◽  
pp. 122-137
Author(s):  
Rie Takezawa
Keyword(s):  
Horn Of Africa

scholarly journals Clarifying the role of radiative mechanisms in the spatio-temporal changes of land surface temperature across the Horn of Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 210-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Temesgen Alemayehu Abera ◽  
Janne Heiskanen ◽  
Petri Pellikka ◽  
Miina Rautiainen ◽  
Eduardo Eiji Maeda
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Land Surface Temperature ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Temporal Changes ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Spatio Temporal

scholarly journals The role of climatic and geological events in generating diversity in Ethiopian grass frogs (genus Ptychadena )

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 170021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan L. Smith ◽  
Brice P. Noonan ◽  
Timothy J. Colston
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Complexity ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Cryptic Diversity ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Climatic Fluctuations ◽  
Divergence Dating ◽  
Evolutionary Radiation ◽  
Novel Taxa ◽  
Climatic History

Ethiopia is a world biodiversity hotspot and harbours levels of biotic endemism unmatched in the Horn of Africa, largely due to topographic—and thus habitat—complexity, which results from a very active geological and climatic history. Among Ethiopian vertebrate fauna, amphibians harbour the highest levels of endemism, making amphibians a compelling system for the exploration of the impacts of Ethiopia's complex abiotic history on biotic diversification. Grass frogs of the genus Ptychadena are notably diverse in Ethiopia, where they have undergone an evolutionary radiation. We used molecular data and expanded taxon sampling to test for cryptic diversity and to explore diversification patterns in both the highland radiation and two widespread lowland Ptychadena . Species delimitation results support the presence of nine highland species and four lowland species in our dataset, and divergence dating suggests that both geologic events and climatic fluctuations played a complex and confounded role in the diversification of Ptychadena in Ethiopia. We rectify the taxonomy of the endemic P. neumanni species complex, elevating one formally synonymized name and describing three novel taxa. Finally, we describe two novel lowland Ptychadena species that occur in Ethiopia and may be more broadly distributed.

The Horn of Africa: Regional Politics and Dynamics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Clapham
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Guerrilla Warfare ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Regional Politics ◽  
World War ◽  
Separate Identity ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Impact ◽  
External Intervention

The peculiar politics of the Horn of Africa derives from the region’s exceptional pattern of state formation. At its center, Ethiopia was Africa’s sole indigenous state to remain independent through the period of colonial conquest, and also imposed its rule on areas not historically subject to it. The Somalis, most numerous of the pastoralist peoples, were unique in rejecting the colonial partition, which divided them between British and Italian Somalilands, French Djibouti, Kenya, and Ethiopia, while formerly Italian Eritrea, incorporated into Ethiopia in the post-World War II settlement, retained a sense of separate identity that fueled a long struggle for independence. These differences, coupled with the 1974 revolution in Ethiopia, led to wars that culminated in 1991 in the independence of Eritrea, the collapse of the Somali state, and the creation in Ethiopia of a federal system based on ethnicity. Developments since that time provide a distinctive slant on the legacies of colonial rule, the impact of guerrilla warfare, the role of religion in a region divided between Christianity and Islam, the management of ethnicity, and external intervention geared to largely futile attempts at state reconstruction. The Horn continues to follow trajectories of its own, at variance from the rest of Africa.

Monasticism in the Oriental Orthodox Churches

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-184
Author(s):  
Samuel Rubenson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South India ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Syrian Orthodox ◽  
Charismatic Authority

The Christian monastic tradition has its origins in the Middle East. It has been and remains a constitutive institution in the Oriental Orthodox Churches, which are the Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian Orthodox Churches. In Armenia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Syriac-speaking Christian traditions, the monasteries have been the most important educational institutions in which language and literature have been transmitted. A strong emphasis on charismatic authority in Oriental monasticism, as well as a lack of political support for the hierarchy in the Coptic and Syrian traditions, has strengthened the role of the monasteries. The monasteries had a major importance for the spread of Christianity in central Asia, south India, and the Horn of Africa in the medieval period. A remarkable revival of Coptic monasticism beginning in the mid-twentieth century is of importance for all the churches.

scholarly journals Conflicting Perspectives on the “Migrant Crisis” in the Horn of Africa

2018 ◽  
pp. 228-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Population Displacement ◽  
Nation States ◽  
And Migration

In sharp contrast to the sense of a “migrant crisis” which prevails in Europe, nation states in the Horn of Africa understand migration, including state-induced population displacement, as unexceptional. The chapter addresses this apparent paradox by contrasting European policy discourse on migration with the long-term political and structural processes in northeastern Africa that cause population displacement and migration. The chapter then examines the migration policies of governments in the Horn and concludes by arguing that the European Union misrepresents and misunderstands the factors responsible for large-scale migration and the role of states in exploiting migrants. For these reasons it is highly unlikely that the EU-Horn of Africa Action Plan/Khartoum process will bring about better border management policies and practices.

The Horn of Africa as Venue for Regional Competition: Motivations, Instruments and Relationship Patterns

2021 ◽  
pp. 097508782110341
Author(s):  
Ismail Numan Telci
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Regional Politics ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Relationship Patterns ◽  
Regional Powers ◽  
External Powers ◽  
External Actors ◽  
The Relationship

The Horn of Africa has visibly started to play a more distinctive role in international relations in the past years. Comprising Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea and Djibouti, the region is home to competition between countries of the region and influence of external actors. The region is increasingly a part of Middle East regional politics and is home to competition among regional powers such as Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran. It is critical to articulate how each country formulates an agenda for the region. Therefore, the article seeks to explain how each regional power came to establish policies with each of the Horn of Africa country to set the stage for a strategy that depends on the region. While the study focuses on the motivations and instruments of involvement of these actors in the Horn of Africa politics, it also focuses on the relationship patterns between these external powers and Horn of African countries. The study aims to generate a policy-oriented analysis as well as a framework with regard to the role of external actors in the Horn of Africa politics.

The Somali Coup of 1969: the Case for Soviet Complicity

1980 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary D. Payton
Keyword(s):  
Popular Press ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Military Campaign ◽  
The U.S

The potential for superpower confrontation on the Horn of Africa in 1977 and 1978 focused world attention on Somalia. For a few brief months, the popular press published regular accounts of President Siad Barre's military campaign in the Ogaden desert against neighbouring Ethiopia. The U.S. Department of State heralded the rôle of Soviet and Cuban advisers in the conflict. When Somalia ousted the Russian forces and abrogated the Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation with the U.S.S.R., the move was interpreted as a major diplomatic setback for Moscow. Now, as quickly as it erupted, the news flow about the Horn has halted.

scholarly journals Peste Des Petits Ruminants (PPR) in Dromedary Camels and Small Ruminants in Mandera and Wajir Counties of Kenya

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. N. Omani ◽  
G. C. Gitao ◽  
J. Gachohi ◽  
P. K. Gathumbi ◽  
B. A. Bwihangane ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Small Ruminants ◽  
Ventral Surface ◽  
Sudden Death Syndrome ◽  
Unknown Etiology ◽  
Peste Des Petits Ruminants ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
General Weakness

A study was conducted to determine the presence of Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in camel population kept together with small ruminants in Isiolo, Mandera, Marsabit, and Wajir counties of Kenya. This was done in the wake of a disease with unknown etiology “Camel Sudden Death Syndrome” camels in the horn of Africa. Thirty-eight (38) samples, 12, 8, 15, and 3 samples, were collected from Mandera, Wajir, Isiolo, and Marsabit, respectively, from 25 camels, 7 goats, and 4 sheep. One camel in Mandera and one goat in Wajir were confirmed positive for PPR virus (PPRV) through reverse Polymerase Chain Reaction. The analysis of sequences revealed closest nucleotide identities of obtained sequences from both goat and camel to the lineage III of PPRV albeit with 60.29% of nucleotide identity. This study establishes that camels in the study area suffer with PPR manifest clinical signs that are mainly characterized by inappetence, loss of body condition, and general weakness terminally leading to diarrhea, conjunctivitis, and ocular nasal discharges preceding death. These clinical signs are similar to those observed in small ruminants with slight variations of manifestations such as keratoconjunctivitis as well as edema of the ventral surface of the abdomen. This shows that camels could be involved in the epidemiology of PPR in the region and that PPRV could be involved in the epidemics of Camel Sudden Death syndrome. There is therefore a need for resources to be dedicated in understanding the role camels play in the epidemiology of PPR and the role of the disease in Camels Sudden death syndrome.

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