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| | Greater Horn of Africa Topic Paper |
 | | Ethiopia, the oldest independent state in Africa but also one of the least developed countries on the continent, already faced a humanitarian catastrophe 16 years ago when close to one million of its people died of starvation. | | | Rothchild and Harbeson argue, "Indeed, it has been commonplace in both the academic and policymaking literatures to refer to the state as though there were no significant, operational distinctions among state, government, or regime. | | | Directly or indirectly, the major world powers have had a direct hand in the political affairs of virtually every African country. |
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http://mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11391/horn.html
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| | Horn of Africa on the Internet |
| | East Germany and the Horn Crisis: Documents on SED Afrikapolitik, by Christian F. Ostermann | | | Has maps and an Archive of 1994-1996 reports including Somalia Reports and a Horn of Africa Review. | | | Contains the Somali Archive, Hornet (information from the PADIS Fidonet network in Ethiopia), issues of Somalia News Update, information on the Falasha of Ethiopia, some articles on economic development, a Somali music clip, etc. Maintained by Michael Maren. |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/horn.html
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| | Horn of Africa - Factbites |
| | The people of the Horn number some 50 million and are among the poorest in the world. | | | We advocate for just policies in the U.S. and in the Horn of Africa that support human rights, economic development, liberty, democracy and religious freedom for East African refugees and immigrants. | | | It is a long-term fight between the forces of freedom and those who seek to spread hatred and fear, both in the Horn of Africa region and around the world. |
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http://www.factbites.com/topics/Horn-of-Africa
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| | DefenseLINK News: Waging the War on Terror in the Horn of Africa |
| | The Marine commander said he wouldn't be surprised if there was still an American presence of some sort in the region in 10 years. | | | Today dozens of terrorists have been captured or killed and there are "hundreds we know by name that we need to talk to." | | | CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti, Dec. 20, 2003 — The American presence here has helped thwart at least three and possibly as many as 10 terrorist attacks in the Horn of Africa region, said Marine Brig. |
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| | Horn of Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Due to the Horn's strategic location, it has been used to restrict access to the Red Sea in the past. | | | The Horn of Africa, since 2002, has been a major focus of attention by the United States, France, Germany, and eleven African nations regarding the War on Terrorism. | | | As a result, the region has some of the world's highest levels of malnutrition and is continuously loomed by a major humanitarian crisis. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_of_Africa
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| | HORN OF AFRICA: The Monthly Review, 4-5/98 |
| | Speaking at a joint conference in the Eritrean capital, Afeworki criticised the UN and foreign aid agencies who he claimed often did a "mediocre job"; "We want a different United Nations," one which would not repeat past mistakes and would be "relevant for Africa," Afeworki said. | | | The Israeli government plans to take hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants straight from the airport to Jewish settlements in the West Bank. | | | Annan ended his African tour on a somewhat downbeat note in Eritrea where he heard more criticism of the United Nations, this time from President Isaias Afeworki. |
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http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Hornet/HOA0498.html
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| | Horn of Africa Energy Information |
| | An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in southern Saudi Arabia and Yemen (the first reported outside Africa) in September and October 2000 left dozens of people dead and hundreds infected. | | | As a consequence, six Gulf States - Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates - have now banned livestock imports from nine African countries, principally from the Horn of Africa. | | | The possibility of installing wind turbines to generate electricity was included in the Government of Somalia's Five-Year Development Plan. |
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http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/hornafrica2.html
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| | Horn of Africa Services |
| | Founded in 1992 by a group of volunteers, HOAS provides assistance to East African immigrants and refugees, regardless of their religious, ethnic or political affiliations. | | | Horn of Africa Services has been active in working to build a bridge between various East African groups by helping to create the Federation of East African Community Organizations in Seattle (FEACOS). | | | HOAS provides services by bilingual staff speaking in Amharic, Oromo, Tigrigna, and Somali. |
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| | Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa News |
| | Timothy F. Ghormley said his new assignment will allow him to remain a part of the mission here. | | | The Seabees have been in the remote region since F... | | | Chaplains and host nation religious leaders from throughout the Horn of Africa visited Djibouti for the HOA Religious Leaders Conference, held Feb. 2 - 5 here. |
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| | GEESKA AFRIKA ONLINE & HAN -IGAD ZONE NEWS and Diaspora USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, England, Italy, Denmark, ... |
| | The web site has become so popular even among world leaders, respected academics, and global business elites which has an interest to the region and Africa as well. | | | Geeska Afrika Magazine Online and HAN (Horn of Africa Newsline) became even more popular when it launched its own web site, which today briefs over a Millions of IGAD zone citizens living in different parts of the world with balanced information on current affairs and issues in their countries. | | | Mogadishu residents seek refuge in a primary school in Somalia's war ravaged capital. |
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| | IRIN PlusNews HIV/AIDS News and information service |
| | NAIROBI, 15 February (PLUSNEWS) - It is crucial for Ethiopia to develop a national HIV/AIDS workplace policy in order for the country's labour force to be treated fairly, experts say. | | | IRIN is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. | | | NAIROBI, 15 March (PLUSNEWS) - Somalia's Transitional Federal Government on Tuesday launched a commission to coordinate HIV/AIDS activities in the central and southern regions of the war-scarred Horn of Africa nation. |
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| | Welcome To HORN OF AFRICA |
| | I know refugees and political activists are in prison | | | After independence, The Horn was once again victimised, by the military and dictatorial regimes which replaced the former colonial authorities. | | | In fact, refugee movement within The Horn has become a vicious circle of violence, political instability and famine. |
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| | WELCOME TO HORN OF AFRICA NEWS AGENCY WEBSITE |
| | ROUND UP: World condemns violence in Somalia, calls for immediate ceasefire | | | Horn of Africa News Agency (HANA) is not responsible for the content of external internet sites | | | • Africa expresses doubts over EU commitment on new fisheries accord |
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| | Area Handbook Series/ Somalia / Bibliography |
| | Albany: State University of New York Press, 1980. | | | War in the Horn of Africa: A Firsthand Report on the Challenges for United States Policy. | | | Somalia: A Government at War with Its Own People. |
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| | Biodiversity Hotspots - Horn of Africa - Overview |
| | It is believed that these two arid regions were united by an “arid corridor” during drier and colder periods in the Pleistocene, and possibly also in the earlier Tertiary. | | | This hotspot also holds more endemic reptiles than any other region in Africa. | | | Overgrazing is the most destructive force, but charcoal harvesting along with unstable government control have also been major problems. |
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http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots/horn_africa
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| | Horn of Africa - SourceWatch |
| | Horn of Africa (http://www.voanews.com/Horn/index.cfm), Voice of America News. | | | The Horn of Africa, since at least November 2002, has been a focus of attention by the United States, France, Germany, and eleven African nations regarding the war on terrorism. | | | July 31, 2003 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3115045.stm): "Horn of Africa peace 'in danger'" by Damian Zane, BBC.co.uk: "The head of the United Nations mission overseeing the Ethiopia-Eritrea peace process, Unmee, has said it is in danger without political dialogue between the two countries." |
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| | 2006 Horn of Africa food crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated on January 6, 2006, that more than 11 million people in these countries may be affected by an impending widespread famine, largely attributed to a severe drought, and exacerbated by military conflicts in the region. | | | This page was last modified 04:52, 8 May 2006. | | | Millions of people are on the brink of starvation in the Horn of Africa, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) news release, 6 January 2006 |
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| | The Horn of Africa |
| | For centuries the Horn of Africa has been the homeland of the Somali people. | | | The organized state which included Somali inhabited territories was Ethiopia. | | | With their nomadic culture and economy, they have in the past had little or no interest in questions of state structure and boundaries. |
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| | Despite conflict, Horn of Africa one step from polio-free status |
| | Critical in the plan is access for international staff to the Mogadishu area, where the two cases of polio in 2002 have been found. | | | The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is spearheaded by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United Nations Children's Fund. | | | A polio-free Horn of Africa is critical to securing polio-free status on the African continent, and a polio-free world. |
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| | Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa |
| | It also works with host nations to deny the reemergence of terrorist cells and activities by supporting international agencies working to enhance long-term stability for the region. | | | The CJTF-HOA mission is focused on detecting, disrupting, and ultimately defeating transnational terrorist groups operating in the region — denying safe havens, external support, and material assistance for terrorist activity. | | | Djibouti has allowed the US to build a new command center, as thousands of US troops gather there for the war on terrorism. |
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| | Horn of Africa: Peace Agreement |
| | Africa Action provides this information and analysis in order to promote U.S. and international policies toward Africa that advance economic, political and social justice and the full spectrum of human rights. | | | The Africa Policy E-Journal is a free information service provided by Africa Action, including both original commentary and reposted documents. | | | This posting contains the text of the peace agreement on the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea reached under the auspices of the Organization of African Unity last week. |
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| | Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa / Djibouti |
| | On October 29, 2002 during a Department of Defense Briefing, General Tommy Franks, head of CENTCOM, confirmed that forces were operating out of Djibouti, though he declined to reveal what exactly the soldiers were doing or where they were operating, but did state that there were already some 800 troops, either ashore or afloat. | | | Various Marine Expeditionary Units that may have been present in the area stopped in Djibouti to provide humanitarian support, namely building structures for local populations and in some areas of Kenya as well. | | | Since nearly the beginning of Coalition operations in the War on Terrorism, Coalition forces have been operating from Djibouti, providing air facilities for patrol aircraft, a port of call for ships, and a location that some ground personnel were stationed at. |
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| | Long-term action plan for the Horn of Africa |
| | In addition, the Committee welcomed the inclusive approach used during the preparation of the report -- The Elimination of food insecurity in the Horn of Africa: A strategy for concerted government and UN agency action -- which involved governments of the region and NGOs, as well as UN system organizations. | | | In the Horn of Africa around 70 million people suffer from chronic food insecurity and are often menaced by famine. | | | The report presents a concrete strategy for action. |
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| | The Horn of Africa: Darfur |
| | It wouldn't be fair to the soldiers from across Africa who were stationed in Darfur to call their mission a failure -- but they have been unable to secure the peace. | | | While the A.U. troops have done much to provide security in Darfur they have been unable to protect civilians throughout the region. |
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| | Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa |
| | Chaplains and host nation religious leaders from throughout the Horn of Africa visited Djibouti for the HOA Religious Leaders Conference, held Feb. 2 - 5 here. | | | If two-year-old Ebtisam Salim could have talked, she would have complained of having had diarrhea and a fever for almost two weeks. | | | CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti, Africa — Though the mission of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa doesn’t get nearly the attention as others in his area of responsibility, Gen. John P. Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command, said he sees the work done in this region as a “blueprint” for the future. |
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| | United Nations - OCHA IRIN Africa News |
| | ADDIS ABABA, 12 May 2006 (IRIN) - Nine out of 10 girls in eastern Africa have suffered physical or psychological abuse, including rape at the hands of relatives, a pan-African advocacy group said in a report. | | | NAIROBI, 11 May 2006 (IRIN) - Though the latest fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu started on 7 May, the violence goes back to as far as 18 February, when Mogadishu-based faction leaders and their business associates formed an alliance to fight Islamic courts. | | | NAIROBI, 8 May 2006 (IRIN) - At least 15 people have been killed and hundreds of families displaced in fighting that began on Sunday between rival militias in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. |
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| | UNICEF - Eastern and Southern Africa - UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman: Urgent action needed in ... |
| | The severe crisis is threatening the lives of 1.5 million children under the age of five. | | | Migration makes children more vulnerable in times of crisis because they are unable to attend school and because they may be separated from their families. | | | “This is an area of Africa that often suffers from drought and, when drought occurs, it impacts the nutrition of children so we are concerned that children will suffer from malnutrition,” said Ms. |
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| | Infibulation in the Horn of Africa |
| | These operations differ from infibulation in that they do not attempt to cover the vaginal orifice. | | | Jutting out into the Indian Ocean, this part of Africa is separated from the remainder of the continent by desert to the north, mountains to the west, and by the tsetse-fly belt in the south. | | | For hundreds of years these two regions, although separated by the Gulf of Aden, have had close contact so that the custom could have spread along well-established trade route. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Africa Horn of Africa 'crisis', UN warns |
| | The United Nations peacekeeping head has warned of a "crisis" in the Horn of Africa, as western UN troops left Eritrea after being ordered out. | | | Jean-Marie Guehenno said he had never experienced a similar situation in 10 years in the job. | | | Eritrea said the peacekeepers must leave by Friday |
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| | The Horn of Africa |
| | Sudan is the largest country in Africa, about 1/3 the size of the contiguous United States. | | | In 1993, after 30 years of war, Eritrea won its independence from Ethiopia. | | | Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Djibouti are located on the Horn of Africa, an area of Africa, shaped like a horn, which juts out into the Indian Ocean. |
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| | .shooby cnvc Diane Horn interview Marshall Rosenberg CNVC grateful Diane | | | Horn s exploration variability identity continues her For her extensive series books Place filmiki studentki_xxx | | | Hulse Publicity Director Told by Sara Horn whose reporting took her aboard USS Harry Truman during the height |
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| | FEWS NET Monthly Report for Rwanda covering the period Mar 2006 to Apr 2006. | | | Project Ploughshares and the International Resource Group on Disarmament and Security in the Horn of Africa (IRG) | | | ETHIOPIA: Pastoral elders give firsthand accounts of their suffering |
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| | EROS Data Center International Program Archived Special Feature |
| | This information is necessary to understand current and potential food deficits and surpluses, and to develop strategies to enhance food security. | | | The USGS analysis was provided under agreement with USAID's Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) Project. | | | This page needs the ability to use cascading style sheets to be viewed correctly |
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| | HORN OF AFRICA: IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-up 326 for 6-12 May 2006, | | | CENTRAL & EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-up 330 for 6-12 May 2006, | | | WEST AFRICA: IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 329 covering 6 - 12 May 2006, |
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| | Horn of Africa - Fine East-African Cuisine |
| | Protruding proudly from the Northeast of the continent, the Horn of Africa includes the countries of Oromia, Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia. | | | After their immediate success at Saturday Market, they began to participate in festivals throughout the Northwest, all to great acclaim. | | | PS: They have a new, special menu for parties of five or more, recommended for special occasions or events like Valentine's Day or birthdays: Please order in advance! |
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| | Horn of Africa - Nashville, TN, 37217-1503 - Citysearch |
| | Write a review and share your thoughts with other users. | | | The Horn of Africa exceeded my expectation in every possible way. | | | Horn of Africa - Nashville, TN, 37217-1503 - Citysearch |
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| | African Studies Center Africa: Newsletter |
| | Horn of Africa Review Compiled by the UNDP-EUE, 6/1-7/31 '97 | | | Horn of Africa Bulletin, Vol.6 No.5 (Sep-Oct 94) |
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