Piracy

male
Somalia, commission, jolly roger, U.S. Coast Guard, US$, Pacific Ocean…HornofAfrica, letter of marque, strait of malacca
Piracy is a robbery committed at sea, or sometimes on the shore, by an agent without a commission from a sovereign nation. Seaborne piracy against...
John Abizaid

John Abizaid

male, 58 years old
Stanford University, Hoover Institute, Harvard University alumni, Central Asia, South Asia, Middle Eastern American…HornofAfrica, Recipient of the Order of Saint Maurice, Recipient of the Ranger tab, Recipient of the Combat Infantryman Badge, Recipient of the Legion of Merit
John Philip Abizaid (born April 1, 1951) is a retired General in the United States Army and former Commander of the United States Central Command...
Berhanu Nega

Berhanu Nega

male, 51 years old
The New School alumni, Imbilta, Debre Zeyit, Mount Asimba, Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party, Coalition for Unity and Democracy…HornofAfrica, State University of New York
Berhanu Nega (born 1958) was elected mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the Ethiopian general elections, 2005. He is a founding chairman of the...

David Kilcullen

male, 42 years old
Australian, HornofAfrica, counterinsurgency, Political Anthropology, David Howell Petraeus, Multi-National Force - Iraq
David Kilcullen, Ph.D. (born 1967) is a leading contemporary practitioner and theorist of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. A former...
Edna Adan Ismail

Edna Adan Ismail

female, 72 years old
somali, Foreign minister, somaliland, politician, Midwife, Djibouti…HornofAfrica
Edna Adan Ismail (born 1937) is the former Foreign Minister of the unrecognized Republic of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa. She held this office...
Annalena Tonelli

Annalena Tonelli

female, deceased (2003)
Tuberculosis, death by firearm in Somalia, activist, forli, somaliland, romagna…HornofAfrica
Annalena Tonelli was an Italian trained lawyer who for several years did remarkable humanitarian work in the Horn of Africa. She generally worked...

Gérard Prunier

male
PhD, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS, rwandan genocide, Darfur conflict, Scholar…University of Paris, east africa, HornofAfrica
Gérard Prunier is a French academic and historian specializing in the Horn of Africa and East Africa. Prunier received a PhD in African History in 1...
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal

Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal

male, deceased (2002)
Somaliland shilling, British Somaliland, somaliland, politician, HornofAfrica, pretoria…Republic of Somaliland
Mudane Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal (born August 15 1922 in Odweyne, British Somaliland - died May 3, 2002 in Pretoria, South Africa) was a Somali...
J. Desmond Clark

J. Desmond Clark

male, deceased (2002)
bantu, malawi, World War II, Archaeologist, angola, British…University of Cambridge, HornofAfrica
John Desmond Clark (more commonly J. Desmond Clark, April 10, 1916 - February 14, 2002) was a British archaeologist noted particularly for his work...
Peter Middlebrook

Peter Middlebrook

male, 44 years old
right-financing, Transition economy, Public-private partnership, energy, transition, privatisation…Alumni of Northumbria University, HornofAfrica, Alumni of Durham University
Dr. Peter J. Middlebrook (born in Lincoln, U.K., 15 November, 1965) is a leading English political economist/Political Scientist specialising in...