Horn of Africa

[hawrn uhv af-ri-kuh]

noun

1. a peninsula in northeastern Africa that juts into the Indian Ocean as the easternmost projection of the African continent, situated along the Gulf of Aden to the north: its constituent countries are Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia. HOA

Horn of Africa

noun

1. a region of NE Africa, comprising Somalia and adjacent territories

Example Sentences

The IOM previously described the journey from the Horn of Africa to Yemen as "one of the busiest and most perilous mixed migration routes".

From BBC

By January 2023, the worst drought in 70 years had hit the Horn of Africa, coming from years of failed rainy seasons in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia.

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When the wider world thinks of Somalia, the first things that are most likely to come to mind are conflict and the pirates who have threatened ships around the Horn of Africa in recent years.

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"It's a level of power projection within this region that we haven't seen yet," says Alan Boswell, the Horn of Africa expert for the International Crisis Group.

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"But that was not my father. He went back into action, fighting bandits in the Horn of Africa."

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