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For long, the Horn of Africa has remained a notorious region. A considerable fraction of the region is desert, but that hardly repels today's modernized terrorists. On the contrary, its isolation and the internal problems that nations in the region...

Ethiopia is embroiled in political as well as military crisis and much of its functioning depends on foreign aid. One of the poorest countries in Africa, Ethiopia is yet to imbibe democracy and the Meles Zenawi government is often described as a sham...

Mogadishu has returned to a nightmare only seen in the early days of the civil war. The fighting is worst since the war over the New Year to kick out the Islamists and put President Abdullahi Yusuf's interim government in the capital. The...