Toward a United States of the Horn of Africa – The Mail & Guardian

Toward a United States of the Horn of Africa – The Mail & Guardian

Nineteen ninety-one was the year the Cold War came to an end. In that same year, two major events took place that attempted to reorder the Horn of Africa. Those events symbolise two opposing answers to the question of how the region should be governed. What we have learned from them is that we need a third answer. On 24 May 1991, Eritrean forces captured the capital, Asmara, a victory which effectively marked the end of the decades-long war of l…