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The Horn of Africa (HoA) is the easternmost peninsula of the African continent.[1][2][3][4]
The Horn of Africa consists of the internationally-recognized countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, as well as the unrecognized country of Somaliland.[5][3][2][1][6] It covers approximately two million square kilometers (770,000 square miles) and is inhabited by roughly 115 million people (Ethiopia: 110 million, Somalia: 10.9 million, Eritrea: 6.4 million, Somaliland: 5.7 million and Djibouti: 921.8 thousand). In ancient and medieval times, it was known in the Western world as the "land of the Barbaria and Ethiopians".[7][8][9] Regional studies on the Horn of Africa are carried out in fields such as Ethiopian studies and Somali studies.
History
Recent history
The United States is using the "humanitarian interventionist" playbook like it used to justify the devastating NATO regime-change war on Libya in 2011.[10] Eritrea is targeted by the US for having a revolutionary left-wing nationalist government which refuses to participate in AFRICOM. The Western corporate media is accusing Eritrea of "committing genocide"[11]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sandra Fullerton Joireman, Institutional Change in the Horn of Africa, (Universal-Publishers: 1997), p.1: "The Horn of Africa encompasses the countries of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia. These countries share similar peoples, languages, and geographical endowments."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Encyclopædia Britannica, inc, Jacob E. Safra, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, (Encyclopædia Britannica: 2002), p.61: "The northern mountainous area, known as the Horn of Africa, comprises Djibouti,Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Michael Hodd, East Africa Handbook, 7th Edition, (Passport Books: 2002), p. 21: "To the north are the countries of the Horn of Africa comprising Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somaliland, Djibouti, and Somalia."
- ↑ Robert Stock, Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation, (The Guilford Press; 2004), p. 26
- ↑ Robert Stock, Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation, (The Guilford Press: 2004), p. 26
- ↑
- ↑ J. D. Fage, Roland Oliver, Roland Anthony Oliver, The Cambridge History of Africa, (Cambridge University Press: 1977), p.190
- ↑ George Wynn Brereton Huntingford, Agatharchides, The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: With Some Extracts from Agatharkhidēs "On the Erythraean Sea", (Hakluyt Society: 1980), p.83
- ↑ John I. Saeed, Somali – Volume 10 of London Oriental and African language library, (J. Benjamins: 1999), p. 250.
- ↑ How US meddling in Ethiopia & Eritrea is destabilizing strategic Horn of Africa by The Grayzone
- ↑ Imperialist UK BBC News: Tigray crisis: 'Genocidal war' waged in Ethiopia region, says ex-leader