Africa's Sore Spot: Regional Conflicts Across the Middle and the Horn

Author(s): An Jacobs
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series Editor(s): Andreas Wenger
Book Title: Strategic Trends 2012: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Place: Zurich

Despite positive messages of democratization and economic growth, sub-Saharan Africa remains afflicted by severe conflicts. The Middle and the Horn host the most widespread and intense of them. Resources and ethno-religious differences are often part of the equation, but the core problem rests with bad governance. Political elites use underlying frictions to fight regional wars, all too often fueled by third-party resource grabs. Until regional dynamics are better understood and addressed through conflict management and trade harmonization, Africa will continue to seriously suffer.

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