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This article scrutinizes the rivalry of superpowers in the Horn of Africa during the Ogaden War. It mainly examines the Soviet involvement over the Ethiopia-Somalia boundary conflicts (1977-1978). The study utilizes both primary and secondary sources. The archival sources of the study are collected from institutions such as MOFA, ENALA, and IES where aides-memoir, speeches, and exchange of correspondences are consulted. The secondary sources are also collected from various published works. After the data is gathered through various sources, it interpreted through historical methodologies. The finding of the study highlights the conventional wisdom of superpowers' intervention in the Horn of Africa during the Cold War period; it pursues to underscore the complex interplay of the realpolitik of the Soviet foreign policy towards the Horn. It also outlines the Soviet policy perspectives in Africa and its response to the Ogaden War. The result of the study claims that the influence of the Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa generally attracts other powers in the region. Indeed, the Soviet influence in the Horn of Africa escalates the local war into an international dimension. This is therefore; the study concludes the rivalry of superpowers in the Ogaden War was to counterweight their balance of power in the Horn of Africa.

This volume analyses and documents some collective consequences of different wars in the Horn of Africa. These exhibit varying characteristics; the immediate national and regional consequences of large-scale regional wars in Ethiopia/Eritrea and in the Sudan, the tribal warfare in southwestern Ethiopia, the indirect and long-term consequences of World War I in the Blue Nile basin and the appalling destruction caused by warring clans and groups in Somalia. (DÜI-Hff)

A Speech by Prof. Zygmunt Plater delivered at the Harvard African Law Association (HALA) and the Harvard Black Law Students Association (BLSA) Conference "Ethiopia: Prospects for Democracy."

Gründe für die politische Instabilität der Region. Kurzer Abriß der Geschichte der Krisen und Konflikte in Äthiopien, Somalia und Djibuti. Die Interessen und die Rolle der Sowjetunion und der USA in der Region und die wechselnden Allianzen. (DÜI-Ott)

This technical brief was commissioned by the Technical Consortium for Building Resilience in the Horn of Africa as one of a series of briefs. The Technical Consortium was established to support the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and national governments in the Greater Horn of Africa. ILRI is the host organization of the technical consortium, which seeks to develop regional, national and investment programs for the long-term development of the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) in the Horn of Africa. The objective is to support IGAD and common program frameworks to end drought related emergencies and build resilience in the Horn of Africa.

Somalia has engendered the policy debate on the extent of the spread of transnational Islamist Jihadist groups in the Horn of Africa (HOA) and their consequences for peace and security across the region. These concerns are justified given the emergence since the late 1980s of extremist groups such as the Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement and the Somali Jihadist Islamist groups of the likes of Al-Ittihad, the Islamic Courts Union and currently Al Shabab. The leaders and fighters of these groups relocated to the HOA after the defeat of the Taliban following the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan. The operations of these transnational Islamist groups within and across the countries of the Horn pose serious challenges to the region and beyond.