Ethnic conflict in the Horn of Africa: Myth and reality


By Hizkias Assefa:
  Most of the wars waged in the Horn of Africa during the past 30 years have been described in terms of ethnic conflict, both by the adversaries themselves and by external analysts. … Although each of these wars has been termed “ethnic conflict”, one encounters tremendous difficulty when trying to analyse what is meant by this term and what these conflicts have been about.  Read More…