The Horn’s Pathocracy: When Leaders Rebrand Atrocity as Strategy

The Horn’s Pathocracy: When Leaders Rebrand Atrocity as Strategy

The Horn’s tragedy is not that elites lack plans. It is that their plans repeatedly treat human beings as expendable inputs. By Selam Kidane A dangerous political culture is hardening across the Horn of Africa: one in which moral inversion becomes governance, and the public is asked to accept cruelty as “realism”. In this Pathocratic culture, the most ruthless actors do not merely seize power. They normalise deception, weaponise grievance, and t…