The growing Arab military, political and religious influence is only the latest example of an external force taking hold in the Horn of Africa.
- Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
It is not just Trump and the US throwing up barriers to Africans. The European Union is moving fast to halt the arrival of refugees and migrants on its southern shores
To get Nelson Mandela released and save Namibia’s independence elections, Thatcher proposed a massive aid programme.
Many Ethiopians regard Castro as the man who saved their country. Somalis view him as the man who denied them the Greater Somalia re-union
The South African president has survived an attempt to remove him, and argued that it was a conspiracy.
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