Africa’s Volatile Horn

From the Council on Foreign Relations, an excellent interactive map of The Horn:
Council on Foreign Relations - The Horn of Africa
A quote from the website:
“As violence in the Horn of Africa grabs international headlines, Western officials have become increasingly concerned that the region could become a haven for terrorist activity. Somalia’s last functioning government fell […]

Understanding The Horn’s Geopolitics: Blowing The Horn

Blowing the Horn
By John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen
From Foreign Affairs
April, 2007
Summary: The Greater Horn of Africa, the hottest conflict zone in the world, is a legitimate concern of U.S. officials. But their overwhelming focus on stemming terrorism there is overshadowing U.S. initiatives to resolve conflicts and promote good governance — with disastrous implications for regional […]

Exemplary Initiatives: The Horn of Africa

KENYA:
April, 2007
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article entitled A Dam Connects Machakos, Kenya, To Archbold, Ohio, addressing issues highly relevant to the NDP cause.
Two key experpts stand out:
Residents of that small village and neighboring hamlets on the plains west of Todelo provided the money to construct the crude cement-and-stone dam, which […]