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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">LDS</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Leadership and Developing Societies</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2399-2859</issn>
      <publisher><publisher-name>African Leadership Centre</publisher-name></publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47697/lds.35370066</article-id>
      <article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Leadership Commentaries</subject></subj-group></article-categories>
      <title-group><article-title>A framework for understanding the Horn of Africa</article-title></title-group>
      <contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Gebresilassie</surname><given-names>Medhane Tadesse</given-names></name><aff>African Leadership Centre,King's College London</aff></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Thierno</surname><given-names>B Ly</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Walsh</surname><given-names>Barney</given-names></name><aff>African Leadership Centre, King's College London</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"><year>2023</year><month>12</month><day>31</day></pub-date>
      <volume>8</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <permissions><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/"><license-p>This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.</license-p></license></permissions>
      <abstract><p>This commentary piece offers a framework for understanding the situations encountered in the Horn of Africa sub-region. It offers something of a framework within a framework by highlighting a series of issues and factors that must be unpacked to understand better the context of the Horn and the situations encountered therein, which we believe would aid leadership theorists and practitioners</p></abstract>
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  <body><sec><p>This commentary piece offers a framework for understanding the situations encountered in the Horn of Africa sub-region. It offers something of a framework within a framework by highlighting a series of issues and factors that must be unpacked to understand better the context of the Horn and the situations encountered therein, which we believe would aid leadership theorists and practitioners</p></sec></body>
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