Biodiversity Hotspots - Horn of Africa
- Provides an overview plus in-depth information about the area's unique biodiversity, human impacts and conservation action. Includes species database, references, glossary and related links.
- http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots/horn_africa/

Africa's New Ocean: A Continent Splits Apart
- Spiegel Magazine article about the geologically rapid plate tectonic rifting observed since September 2005 in the Afar Triangle near the Horn of Africa. Includes photos.
- http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,405947,00.html