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This climate change profile provides a brief analysis of climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity in the countries in the Greater Horn of Africa region (GHA): Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. The GHA is a vast arid and semi-arid region of 4.5 million km2 (roughly the size of Western Europe) with a relatively fast-growing population of over 250,000,000.

Poor with the majority of its population illiterate, this food insecure region is highly vulnerable to climate change, not only due to rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and rising sea level, but also because of political instability and fragility, conflict, poor governance and corruption.