| | Some things have changed for the better since ROAPE's last special issue (No. 44, 1989) on the Horn of Africa. The continent's oldest conflict ended when Eritrea won its struggle for independence in 1991. As a result, Ethiopia has known a period of relative peace since then. Some things have changed for the worse. Civil conflict, the scourge of the region, caused the collapse of the Somali state. It also spread to Djibouti, and to parts of northern Sudan, a country which now enjoys the dubious distinction of having Africa's oldest conflict in its southern region. |
