Africa's resources fuel global rivalry as the African Union must lead in safeguarding sovereignty and development ...

This process became known as the ‘Scramble for Africa’. However, historians have recently started to refer to the events as the ‘Partition of Africa’ or the ‘Conquest of Africa’.

Somaliland is part of Somalia and the larger Horn of Africa region. It has hundreds of miles of coastline along the Gulf of Aden to the north, and it borders Ethiopia to the south and west and ...

The Horn countries have become the hub of this fresh imperialism, stimulated by two symbiotic forces, fear and interests. Fear and interests stimulated the 19th Century Scramble for Africa.

Michalopoulos, Stelios, and Elias Papaioannou. "The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17620, October 2014.