Horn of Africa

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Horn of Africa
Countries
4 sovereign states[1]
1 unrecognised state
Population140,683,144 (2020 est.)
Area1,882,757 km2

The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula,[2][3][4] is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.[5] Located on the easternmost part of the African mainland, it is the fourth largest peninsula in the world. It is composed of Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somaliland.[6] Although not common, broader definitions also include parts or all of Kenya and Sudan.[7][8][9] It has been described as a region of great geopolitical and strategic importance since it is situated along the southern boundary of the Red Sea, extending hundreds of kilometres into the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel, and Indian Ocean, it also shares a maritime border with the Arabian Peninsula.[10][11][12][13]

Names

This peninsula has been known by various names.

Bilad al Barbar ("Land of the Berbers").[14][15][16] It is also known as the Somali peninsula or, in the Somali language, Geeska Afrika, Jasiiradda Soomaali or Gacandhulka Soomaali.[17] In other local languages, it is called "the Horn of Africa" or "the African Horn": in Amharic የአፍሪካ ቀንድ yäafrika qänd, in Arabic القرن الأفريقي al-qarn al-'afrīqī, in Oromo Gaaffaa Afriikaa, and in Tigrinya ቀርኒ ኣፍሪቃ q’ärnī afīrīqa.[18][19]

Description

The Horn of Africa Region consists of the internationally recognized countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia.[15][16][20][21]

Geographically the protruding shape that resembles a "Horn" consists of the "Somali peninsula" and eastern part of Ethiopia. But the region encompasses also the rest of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.[22][23][24][25] Broader definitions include Kenya and Sudan.[26] The term Greater Horn Region (GHR) can additionally include South Sudan and Uganda.[27] The term Greater Horn of Africa is sometimes used to be inclusive of neighbouring southeast African countries to distinguish the broader geopolitical definition of the Horn of Africa from narrower peninsular definitions.[19][28][29]

The Greater Horn of Africa consists of more than the typical four countries, including also Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and South Sudan.[30][31]

The name Horn of Africa is sometimes shortened to HoA. Quite commonly it is referred to simply as "the Horn", while inhabitants are sometimes colloquially termed Horn Africans.[18][19] Regional studies on the Horn of Africa are carried out in fields of Ethiopian studies and Somali studies. This peninsula has been known by various names. Ancient Greeks and Romans referred to it as Regio Aromatica or Regio Cinnamonifora due to the aromatic plants or as Regio Incognita owing to its uncharted territory.

History

Further information: Sub-Saharan Africa § Horn of Africa, and African empires § Horn of Africa

Prehistory

Deka rock art in Deka Arbaa, Debub region of Eritrea

Some of the earliest

Homo sapiens fossils, the Omo remains (from ca. 233,000 years ago) and the Herto skull (from ca. 160,000 ago) have been found in the region, both in Ethiopia.[32]

The findings of the Earliest Stone Tipped Projectiles from the Ethiopian Rift dated to more than 279,000 years ago "in combination with the existing archaeological, fossil and genetic evidence, isolate East Africa as a source of modern cultures and biology."[33][34][35]

According to the

Bab el Mandeb. Today at the Bab-el-Mandeb straits, the Red Sea is about 12 miles (19 kilometres) wide, but 50,000 years ago it was much narrower and sea levels were 70 meters lower. Though the straits were never completely closed, there may have been islands in between which could be reached using simple rafts. Shell middens 125,000 years old have been found in Eritrea,[36] indicating the diet of early humans included seafood obtained by beachcombing
.

Ethiopian and Eritrean agriculture established the earliest known use of the seed grass teff (Poa abyssinica) between 4000 and 1000 BCE.[37] Teff is used to make the flatbread injera/taita. Coffee also originated in Ethiopia and has since spread to become a worldwide beverage.[38]

Historian Christopher Ehret, cited genetic evidence which had identified the Horn of Africa as a source of a genetic marker "M35/215" Y-chromosome lineage for a significant population component which moved north from that region into Egypt and the Levant. Ehret argued that this genetic distribution paralleled the spread of the Afrasian language family with the movement of people from the Horn of Africa into Egypt and added a new demic component to the existing population of Egypt 17,000 years ago.[39]

Ancient history

Main articles:
Ancient Somali City-States
Further information: History of Ethiopia, History of Eritrea, History of Somalia, History of Djibouti, and Ethiopian historiography

The area comprising Somalia, Djibouti, the Red Sea coast of Eritrea and Sudan is considered the most likely location of the land known to the ancient Egyptians as Punt (or "Ta Netjeru", meaning god's land), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BCE.[40]

plows, grew millet, and made iron tools and weapons. After the fall of Dʿmt in the 5th century BCE, the plateau came to be dominated by smaller successor kingdoms, until the rise of one of these kingdoms during the 1st century, the Aksumite Kingdom, which was able to reunite the area.[41]

Aksum, symbol of the Aksumite civilization
.

The

China
.

Ancient trading centers in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula according to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

Somalia was an important link in the Horn, connecting the region's commerce with the rest of the ancient world. Somali sailors and merchants were the main suppliers of

Greco-Roman trade.[44]

The

Barbara civilization.[45][46] The city of Mogadishu came to be known as the "City of Islam"[47] and controlled the East African gold trade for several centuries.[48]

Middle Ages and Early Modern era

Main articles:
Aussa Sultanate, Majeerteen Sultanate, Sultanate of Hobyo, Khedivate's Somali Coast, and Ottoman Zeila
Further information: History of Africa § Horn of Africa
Amde Seyon I
The Adal Sultanate at its peak in 1540

During the Middle Ages, several powerful empires dominated the regional trade in the Horn, including the Adal Sultanate, the Ajuran Sultanate, the Ethiopian Empire, the Zagwe dynasty, and the Sultanate of the Geledi.

The

Sultanate of Showa, established in 896, was one of the oldest local Islamic states. It was centered in the former Shewa province in central Ethiopia. The polity was succeeded by the Sultanate of Ifat around 1285. Ifat was governed from its capital at Zeila in Somaliland and was the easternmost district of the former Shewa Sultanate.[49]

The

Conquest of Abyssinia
or Futuh al Habash.

The citadel in Gondershe, an important city in the medieval Ajuran Sultanate

Through a strong centralized administration and an aggressive military stance towards invaders, the

House of Gareen, also expanded its territories and established its hegemonic rule through a skillful combination of warfare, trade linkages and alliances.[51]

The Zagwe dynasty ruled many parts of modern Ethiopia and Eritrea from approximately 1137 to 1270. The name of the dynasty comes from the Cushitic-speaking Agaw people of northern Ethiopia. From 1270 onwards for many centuries, the Solomonic dynasty ruled the Ethiopian Empire.

In 1270, the

Amhara nobleman Yekuno Amlak, who claimed descent from the last Aksumite king and ultimately the Queen of Sheba, overthrew the Agaw Zagwe dynasty at the Battle of Ansata, ushering his reign as Emperor of Ethiopia. While initially a rather small and politically unstable entity, the empire managed to expand significantly during the crusades of Amda Seyon I (1314–1344) and his successors, becoming the dominant force in East Africa.[52][53]

The Lalibela churches carved by the Zagwe dynasty in the 12th century

In the early 15th century, Ethiopia sought to make diplomatic contact with European kingdoms for the first time since Aksumite times. A letter from King

Yeshaq sent two emissaries to Alfonso V of Aragon, who sent return emissaries who failed to complete the return trip.[55]

The first continuous relations with a European country began in 1508 with Portugal under Emperor

Ethiopian–Adal War was also one of the first proxy wars in the region as the Ottoman Empire
, and Portugal took sides in the conflict.

Fakr ad-Din Mosque built by Fakr ad-Din, the first Sultan of the Sultanate of Mogadishu

When Emperor

Fasilides, declared the state religion to again be Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and expelled the Jesuit missionaries and other Europeans.[59][60]

During the end of 18th and the beginning of 19th century the Yejju dynasty (more specifically, the Warasek) ruled north Ethiopia changing the official language of Amhara people to Afaan Oromo, including inside the court of Gondar which was capital of the empire. Founded by

Yejju Oromo tribe as well as Wollo and Raya Oromo.[61]

The port of Massawa, Eritrea, founded by the Arabs and later modernized and expanded by the Italians, in a 19th-century engraving
The Sultanate of Hobyo's cavalry and fort

The

Ahmed Yusuf, who forced regional powers such as the Omani Empire to submit tribute
.

The Isaaq Sultanate was a Somali kingdom that ruled parts of the Horn of Africa during the 18th and 19th centuries. It spanned the territories of the Isaaq clan, descendants of the Banu Hashim clan,[62] in modern-day Somaliland and Ethiopia. The sultanate was governed by the Reer Guled branch of the Eidagale sub-clan established by the first sultan, Sultan Guled Abdi. The sultanate is the pre-colonial predecessor to the modern Somaliland.[63][64][65]

According to oral tradition, prior to the Guled dynasty the Isaaq clan-family were ruled by a dynasty of the Tolje'lo branch starting from, descendants of Ahmed nicknamed Tol Je'lo, the eldest son of Sheikh Ishaaq's Harari wife. There were eight Tolje'lo rulers in total, starting with Boqor Harun (Somali: Boqor Haaruun) who ruled the Isaaq Sultanate for centuries starting from the 13th century.[66][67] The last Tolje'lo ruler Garad Dhuh Barar (Somali: Dhuux Baraar) was overthrown by a coalition of Isaaq clans. The once strong Tolje'lo clan were scattered and took refuge amongst the Habr Awal with whom they still mostly live.[68][69]

The

Osman Mahamuud during its golden age, it controlled much of northeastern and central Somalia in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The polity had all of the organs of an integrated modern state and maintained a robust trading network. It also entered into treaties with foreign powers and exerted strong centralized authority on the domestic front.[70][71] Much of the Sultanate's former domain is today coextensive with the autonomous Puntland region in northern Somalia.[72]

The Sultanate of Hobyo was a 19th-century Somali kingdom founded by Sultan Yusuf Ali Kenadid. Initially, Kenadid's goal was to seize control of the neighboring Majeerteen Sultanate, which was then ruled by his cousin Boqor Osman Mahamuud. However, he was unsuccessful in this endeavor, and was eventually forced into exile in Yemen. A decade later, in the 1870s, Kenadid returned from the Arabian Peninsula with a band of Hadhrami musketeers and a group of devoted lieutenants. With their assistance, he managed to establish the kingdom of Hobyo, which would rule much of northern and central Somalia during the early modern period.[73]

Modern history

Main articles: Italian Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, Italian East Africa, British Somaliland, French Somaliland, and French Territory of the Afars and the Issas
See also:
Ethiopian-Somali conflict, and Somali Civil War
A 1909 map of Africa; the Horn of Africa is the easternmost projection of the African continent.
Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, in February 2022
Dervish State
in 1900 after takeover of the Area of Jigjiga

In the period following the opening of the

coaling stations for their ships, Italy invaded and occupied Eritrea. On 1 January 1890, Eritrea officially became a colony of Italy. In 1896 further Italian incursion into the horn was decisively halted by Ethiopian forces. By 1936 however, Eritrea became a province of Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana), along with Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland. By 1941, Eritrea had about 760,000 inhabitants, including 70,000 Italians.[74] The Commonwealth armed forces, along with the Ethiopian patriotic resistance, expelled those of Italy in 1941,[75] and took over the area's administration. The British continued to administer the territory under a UN Mandate
until 1951, when Eritrea was federated with Ethiopia, per UN resolution 390 A (V) adopted December 1950.

The strategic importance of Eritrea, due to its

Eritrean-Ethiopian War.[77]

Eritrean Ascaris
, colonial troops of the Italian Army, in a 1898 wood engraving
Porta di Giardini (Gate Gardens) at Mogadishu market, Italian Somaliland
British camel troopers in British Somaliland
T-34/85 Model 1969 tank for use by the Western Somali Liberation Front during the Ogaden War
, March 1978
Eritrea–Ethiopia boundary
(2005)

From 1862 until 1894, the land to the north of the

city of Djibouti and named the region Côte française des Somalis (French Somaliland
), a name which continued until 1967.

In 1958, on the eve of neighboring

vote rigging, with the French expelling thousands of Somalis before the polls.[82] The majority of those who voted no were Somalis who were strongly in favour of joining a united Somalia, as had been proposed by Mahmoud Harbi, Vice President of the Government Council. Harbi was killed in a plane crash two years later.[81] Djibouti finally gained its independence from France in 1977. Hassan Gouled Aptidon, a Somali politician who had campaigned for a yes vote in the referendum of 1958, became the nation's first president (1977–1999).[81] In early 2011, the Djiboutian citizenry took part in a series of protests against the long-serving government, which were associated with the larger Arab Spring demonstrations. The unrest eventually subsided by April of the year, and Djibouti's ruling People's Rally for Progress
party was re-elected to office.

The

trusteeship of Italy, between 1950 and 1960. The Union of the two countries in 1960 formed the Somali Republic. A civilian government was formed, and on 20 July 1961, through a popular referendum, the constitution drafted in 1960 was ratified.[86]

Due to its longstanding ties with the

Transitional Federal Government was subsequently created in 2004.[90] The Federal Government of Somalia was established on 20 August 2012, concurrent with the end of the TFG's interim mandate.[91] It represents the first permanent central government in the country since the start of the civil war.[91] The Federal Parliament of Somalia serves as the government's legislative branch.[92]

Modern Ethiopia and its current borders are a result of significant territorial reduction in the north and expansion in the east and south toward its present borders, owing to several migrations, commercial integration, treaties as well as conquests, particularly by

Treaty of Wichale with Italy in May 1889, in which Italy would recognize Ethiopia's sovereignty so long as Italy could control a small area of northern Tigray (part of modern Eritrea).[96] In return, Italy was to provide Menelik with arms and support him as emperor.[97] The Italians used the time between the signing of the treaty and its ratification by the Italian government to further expand their territorial claims. Italy began a state funded program of resettlement for landless Italians in Eritrea, which increased tensions between the Eritrean peasants and the Italians.[97] This conflict erupted in the Battle of Adwa on 1 March 1896, in which Italy's colonial forces were defeated by the Ethiopians.[98]

The early 20th century in Ethiopia was marked by the reign of Emperor

East African Campaign in 1941.[101]

Haile Selassie's reign came to an end in 1974, when a Soviet-backed

USSR, Cuba, South Yemen, East Germany[102] and North Korea
, including around 15,000 Cuban combat troops.

In 1989, the

Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), and eventually managed to overthrow Mengistu's dictatorial regime in 1991. A transitional government, composed of an 87-member Council of Representatives and guided by a national charter that functioned as a transitional constitution, was then set up. The first free and democratic election took place later in 1995, when Ethiopia's longest-serving Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was elected to office. As with other nations in the Horn region, Ethiopia maintained its historically close relations with countries in the Middle East during this period of change.[103] Zenawi died in 2012, but his Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
(EPRDF) party remains the ruling political coalition in Ethiopia.

Geography

Geology and climate

The Horn of Africa as seen from the NASA Space Shuttle in May 1993. The orange and tan colors in this image indicate a largely arid to semiarid climate.

The Horn of Africa is almost

Great Rift Valley, a fissure in the Earth's crust extending from Turkey to Mozambique and marking the separation of the African and Arabian tectonic plates
. Mostly mountainous, the region arose through faults resulting from the Rift Valley.

Geologically, the Horn and

Afar Depression, and an undersea continuation of the rift extending southward offshore. The northern boundary is the Aden Ridge along the coast of Saudi Arabia. The eastern boundary is the Central Indian Ridge, the northern portion of which is also known as the Carlsberg Ridge. The southern boundary is the Southwest Indian Ridge
.

Extensive glaciers once covered the Simien and Bale Mountains but melted at the beginning of the Holocene.[citation needed] The mountains descend in a huge escarpment to the Red Sea and more steadily to the Indian Ocean. Socotra is a small island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia. Its size is 3,600 km2 (1,400 sq mi) and it is a territory of Yemen.

The

lowlands of the Horn are generally arid in spite of their proximity to the equator. This is because the winds of the tropical monsoons that give seasonal rains to the Sahel and the Sudan blow from the west. Consequently, they lose their moisture before reaching Djibouti and northern part of Somalia, with the result that most of the Horn receives little rainfall during the monsoon season.[citation needed
]

The Horn of Africa. NASA image

In the mountains of Ethiopia, many areas receive over 2,000 mm (79 in) per year, and even

trade winds do not provide any moisture except in mountainous areas of northern Somalia, where rainfall in late autumn can produce annual totals as high as 500 mm (20 in). On the eastern coast, a strong upwelling
and the fact that the winds blow parallel to the coast means annual rainfall can be as low as 50 mm (2.0 in).

The climate in Ethiopia varies considerably between regions. It is generally hotter in the lowlands and temperate on the plateau. At Addis Ababa, which ranges from 2,200 to 2,600 m (7,218 to 8,530 ft), maximum temperature is 26 °C (78.8 °F) and minimum 4 °C (39.2 °F). The weather is usually sunny and dry, but the short (belg) rains occur from February to April and the big (meher) rains from mid-June to mid-September. The Danakil Desert stretches across 100,000 km2 of arid terrain in northeast Ethiopia, southern Eritrea, and northwestern Djibouti. The area is known for its volcanoes and extreme heat, with daily temperatures over 45 °C and often surpassing 50 °C. It has a number of lakes formed by lava flows that dammed up several valleys. Among these are Lake Asale (116 m below sea level) and Lake Giuletti/Afrera (80 m below sea level), both of which possess cryptodepressions in the Danakil Depression. The Afrera contains many active volcanoes, including the Maraho, Dabbahu, Afdera and Erta Ale.[106][107]

In Somalia, there is not much seasonal variation in climate. Hot conditions prevail year-round along with periodic monsoon winds and irregular rainfall. Mean daily maximum temperatures range from 28 to 43 °C (82 to 109 °F), except at higher elevations along the eastern seaboard, where the effects of a cold offshore current can be felt. Somalia has only two permanent rivers, the Jubba and the Shabele, both of which begin in the Ethiopian Highlands.[108]

Ecology

Oryx beisa beisa
is found throughout the Horn of Africa

About 220

painted hunting dog had populations in the Horn of Africa, but pressures from human exploitation of habitat along with warfare have reduced or extirpated this canid in this region.[109]

Some important bird species of the Horn are the black boubou, the golden-winged grosbeak, the Warsangli linnet, and the Djibouti spurfowl.

The Horn of Africa holds more

Pachycalamus and Aeluroglena. Half of these genera are uniquely found on Socotra. Unlike reptiles, amphibians
are poorly represented in the region.

There are about 100 species of

Somali blind barb, Phreatichthys andruzzii and Uegitglanis zammaranoi
can be found.

Myrrh, a common resin in the Horn

It is estimated that about 5,000 species of

yeheb nut, and the Somali cyclamen
.

Due to the Horn of Africa's

USAID have succeeded in reclaiming hundreds of hectares of pastureland through rangeland management, leading to the establishment of the Dikale Rangeland in 2004.[110]

As of 2023, the Horn of Africa is affected by a severe

ongoing drought and famine that has been going on for six consecutive years, especially in Somalia and in the months from March to May during which 60% of the annual rainfall occurs. It is estimated that the lives of a number of people ranging from 22[111] to 58 million[112]
are at risk.

Demographics, ethnicity and languages

Further information:
Ethiopian Semitic languages, Nilotic languages, Omotic languages, Afroasiatic languages, and Nilo-Saharan languages
Map of the ethnic groups who speak Cushitic languages

Besides sharing similar geographic endowments, the countries of the Horn of Africa are, for the most part, linguistically and ethnically linked together,

Ethiosemitic-speaking Ethiopian Highlanders and Eritrean Highlanders
centered in the highlands.

According to

Wolaytta.[116]

Saho women in traditional attire.
Somali
men and women in front of a traditional house

Languages belonging to the

Me'en and Mursi languages used in southwestern Ethiopia, and Kunama and Nara
idioms spoken in parts of southern Eritrea.

Languages belonging to the

Bantu ethnic minorities in Somalia. In the riverine and littoral areas of southern Somalia, Bajuni, Barawani, and Bantu groups also speak variants of the Niger-Congo Swahili and Mushunguli languages.[117][118]

The Horn has produced numerous indigenous writing systems. Among these is

Ge'ez language
. In speech communities that use it, such as the Amharic and Tigrinya, the script is called fidäl (ፊደል), which means "script" or "alphabet". For centuries, Somali sheikhs and Sultans used
Osmanya (also known as far soomaali; Osmanya: 𐒍𐒖𐒇 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘) for representing the sounds of Somali.[121] Though no longer the official writing script in Somalia, the Osmanya script is available in the Unicode
range 10480-104AF [from U+10480 – U+104AF (66688–66735)]. A number of ethnic minority groups in southern Ethiopia and Eritrea also adhere to various
sky god Tumu.[122]

Economy

Coffee beans from Ethiopia

According to the IMF, in 2010 the Horn of Africa region had a total GDP (PPP) of $106.224 billion and nominal of $35.819 billion. Per capita, the GDP in 2010 was $1061 (PPP) and $358 (nominal).[123][124][125][126]

Over 95% of cross-border trade within the region is unofficial and undocumented, carried out by pastoralists trading livestock.[127] The unofficial trade of live cattle, camels, sheep and goats from Ethiopia sold to other countries in the Horn and the wider Eastern Africa region, including Somalia and Djibouti, generates an estimated total value of between US$250 and US$300 million annually (100 times more than the official figure), with the towns of Burao and Yirowe in Somaliland being home to the largest livestock markets in the Horn of Africa, with as many as 10,000 heads of sheep and goats sold daily from all over the Horn of Africa, with many of whom shipped to Gulf states via the port of Berbera.[127][128][129][130] This trade helps lower food prices, increase food security, relieve border tensions and promote regional integration.[127] However, the unregulated and undocumented nature of this trade runs risks, such as allowing disease to spread more easily across national borders. Furthermore, governments are unhappy with lost tax revenue and foreign exchange revenues.[127]

See also

Notes

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