• AFFINITY BLOC: HORN OF AFRICA PEOPLES


QUICK FACTS:

People groups: 155

Population: 164,627,675

Unreached people groups: 127

UPG population: 144,250,675

Unengaged UPGs: 69

UUPG population: 16,758,575

Number of clusters: 9

Number of countries: 19

 

Overview: The peoples of the Horn of Africa are linked by thousands of years of shared history, trade networks, and cultural exchange, yet exhibit significant diversity in language, politics, and religion. The region's complexities reflect many of the major challenges and dynamics shaping contemporary global affairs, including questions of governance, religious identity, conflict resolution, and development. The heartland of this affinity bloc includes Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Djibouti, with related populations extending into neighboring Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, and Egypt. Some related people groups are also found in Tanzania.

  -- ROP Editor

People clusters: Afar-Saho; Agau; Beja; Ethio-Semitic; Omotic; Oromo; Rift; Sidama; Somali

Countries where they are found: Canada; Djibouti; Egypt; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Germany; Italy; Kenya; Netherlands; Saudi Arabia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Sweden; Tanzania; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States; Yemen


People groups: 155

Population: 164,627,675

Unreached people groups: 127

UPG population: 144,250,675

Unengaged UPGs: 69

UUPG population: 16,758,575

Number of clusters: 9

Number of countries: 19