Diplomacy and hegemony in the “Horn of Africa”

... Africa” expanded to comprise roughly 8 percent of the total land mass of the continent. Now, thanks to the big land grab, the new “Horn of Africa” has doubled in size, comprisng roughly 18 percent of the continental land mass of Africa. The new “Horn of Africa” now includes the Uganda, which has been part of what western diplomats call the ”Lake District,” South Sudan and Sudan, which has seacoast along the Red Sea, but Port Sudan is 2130 air kilometers from Mogadishu, the focal ...