Diplomacy and hegemony in the “Horn of Africa”

... will be pumping 2 million barrels a day by the start of 2016. The new improved Horn... from Aberdeen to Casablanca Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia have been regarded by the “major powers” for nearly half a century as the “Horn of Africa” because of their strategic significance to world energy security, linking oil routes from the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea and Suez Canal. Though not part of the geographic “horn” Kenya has been included becuase it has seacoast along the Indian Ocean, and because it has as become a conduit ...