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The Horn of Africa Studies Program
This program focuses on monitoring and analyzing latest developments occurring in the Horn of Africa and their political, economic, security and military repercussions. Also, it tries to explore potential avenues for developing Yemen's relationships with the other countries of the region.
Sub-categories:-
Security issues and regional co-operation
Yemen and the Horn of Africa
The internal developments in the Horn of Africa
International Relations
India and West Africa A Burgeoning Relationship
Auther: || Date:During the India–Africa trade conclave organized by the Confederation of Indian Industries in Delhi in November 2005, African businessmen eyed ‘investment opportunities in India’ from ‘agriprocessing to infrastructure to chemicals’. At the meeting, the two most sought-after African investors were from West Africa: the CONDICAF group, based in Côte d’Ivoire, and Benin’s agri-processing major SOCAFA Sarl. ‘Besides being smitten by the Indian growth story, African businesses have been motivated by policy makers on both sides, who have been actively trying to patronise trade between the two partners.
Eritrea’s regional role and foreign policy: past, present and future perspectives
Auther: || Date:The workshop on ‘Eritrea’s Regional Role and Foreign Policy: past, present and future perspectives’, held on 17 December 2007, organized by the Horn of Africa Group1 sought to explore the history and current position of Eritrea’s external relations, before and since the achievement of independence in 1991. It brought together international scholars, analysts and others from the region to consider the nature of Eritrea’s foreign relations both regionally and in the wider international arena.
Livestock trade in the Djibouti, Somali and Ethiopian borderlands
Auther: || Date:In the vast arid and semi-arid areas that characterize the Somali-populated territories of the Horn, pastoralism and agro-pastoralism are the dominant mode of livelihood. The northern Somali livestock trade involves the annual export of at least $200 million worth of live animals through the ports of Berbera, Bosasso and Djibouti across the Gulf of Aden.1 This is said to be the largest movementof live animal – ‘on the hoof’ – trade anywhere in the world. The ports are linked to the interior rangelands through a series of clan-based corridors through which the trade is managed. These networks penetrate deep into Ethiopia’s Somali Region where many of the animals are raised. The livestock trade forms an economic system –providing jobs and livelihoods for a majority of people – that underpins the social and political relations between Ethiopia, Djibouti, the Somaliland Republic and the state of Puntland.
Livestock trade in the Kenyan,Somali and Ethiopian borderlands
Auther: || Date:Livestock trade is the main economic activity and a critical source of livelihood for the pastoral Somali populations and an important link between the borderlands in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Such trade, mainly in cattle,1 has existed across these border areas for centuries, but in the past couple of decades, particularly since the collapse of the Somali state in 1991, it has experienced phenomenal growth, along with changing trading directions and clan relationships. Livestock procurement begins in southern Somalia and southeastern Ethiopia. Complex market arrangements and channels involving a wide range of participants have created a web of cross-border relations based on trade and clan affiliations. While livestock are usually trekked from village markets to primary and secondary markets, traders trucktheir animals to the terminal markets of Nairobi and Mombasa
