The Crucial Role of IGAD in the Horn of Africa

Abstract

By and large, regional organizations are conduits for facilitating regional response for common problems. In Africa there are many regional organizations and despite the proliferation of such organization, the significant question one could raise is what roles do regional organizations have in Africa? As a way of addressing this dilemma, this paper attempts to examine the pronounced roles of IGAD from four perspectives using secondary sources of data. The paper underlined that IGAD has playing crucial roles in ensuring security, as a multiplier of global agenda, legitimacy provider and instruments of regional resistance in the Horn of Africa.

Keywords: Horn of Africa, conflicts, security, global agenda, regional resistance