China’s foreign minister says his country will appoint a special envoy to the Horn of Africa region, where Ethiopia and Eritrea have been fighting forces from Ethiopia’s Tigray region and Somalia is in the grip of a political crisis caused by a long-delayed election.
About
The Horn of Africa also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula of East Africa.
Location
Located on the easternmost part of the African mainland, it is the fourth largest peninsula in the world.
It lies along the southern boundary of the Red Sea and extends hundreds of kilometres into the Guardafui Channel, Gulf of Aden, and Indian Ocean.
The Horn of Africa is equidistant from the equator and the Tropic of Cancer.
Physical Features
It consists chiefly of mountains uplifted through the formation of the Great Rift Valley, a fissure in the Earth's crust extending from Turkey to Mozambique and marking the separation of the African and Arabian tectonic plates.
The Horn contains such diverse areas as the highlands of the Ethiopian Plateau, the Ogaden desert, and the Eritrean and Somalian coasts.
Its coasts are washed by the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Indian Ocean.
Countries
The region that is home to the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
