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Fifteen year old Abdullahi sits eagerly in his electronic repair vocational skills class at the Galckayo vocational training center in Puntland.

Every morning, Mohamed Abdi, head teacher of Daryel Primary School in Bossasso, welcomes his pupils at the school gates.

40 year old Bullo is working in her small tea shop in the bustling streets of an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Bossasso.

While insecurity and climate constraints were considered the main drivers, the search for a ‘better life’ was also a contributing cause, according to the study "Return and (Re) Integration after Displacement Belonging, Labelling and Livelihoods in Three Somali Cities".

Between 14 and 18 May, the EU- IOM Joint Initiative in the Horn of Africa supported the Federal Government of Somalia’s capacity building effort through a training of the Return and Readmission Task Force in Entebbe, Uganda.

“I travelled to Saudi Arabia because of unemployment in Hargeisa [Somaliland].

Permitting to returnees to Somalia to live in dignity isone of themain objectives of the project “Facilitating Sustainable Return Through Laying Foundations for Somalia in the Horn of Africa” financed by the EU Trust Fund and implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM)Take a...

“We left Yemen because of the conflict and to get our children out from the bullets,” says Anab Mohamed Said, a returnee to Somalia.

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) held its National Consultation Workshop towards the development of the IGAD Protocol on Free Movement of Persons in Mogadishu, Somalia inFebruary 2018.