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Thirteen participants from Kenyan, Ethiopian, and Sudanese police and investigation agencies attended a two-week course in Italy on “Trafficking in Human Beings”.

BackgroundThe Better Migration Management (BMM)programme is protecting migrants and providing them with better medical care.

A young woman enters a local health clinic; her hands filled with blisters.

When victims of human trafficking are rescued there is an immediate need to place them in a safe location, where they have a chance to heal and reintegrate into society.

“One of our main challenges in the field of border management is sharing information among various agencies.

Kenya has been operating a successful National Coordination Mechanism (NCM) system since July 2016 and it is considered among the best in the Horn of Africa and East Africa as a whole.

Rising unemployment, land shortage, and ethnic tensions across the Amhara region in Ethiopia drive about 80,000 people to cross the border every year to find work on the Sudanese farms in the Gedaref State where labour demand is high.

The Horn of Africa hosts more than 9 million displaced persons, many of which travelling irregularly, without visa or papers.

Aiming to revive the industry that collapsed nearly three decades ago, this project will give 15,000 small-scale farmers the opportunity to produce organic cashew and sesame for export markets.