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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.

The Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs held an one-day roundtable on the Zero Draft Plus of the Global Compact on Migration (GCM) on 9 May 2018.

The full first quarterly monitoring report for the Horn of Africa region is available, produced by Altai Consulting and thanks to the impressive collaboration of the EUTF HoA implementing partners, who have worked very hard to make this possible.

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.

The International labour Organisation (ILO) Ethiopia conducted a five day-long training on Skills Needs Anticipation and Matching forMember States of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)in Intercontinental Hotel Addis Ababa inMarch2018.

On 24 April 2018,the European Union (EU)funded "Reintegration Facility" project was kicked offin an event hosted by the Somaliland Government, the EU and IOM, the UN Migration Agency.

In Nairobi, the set-up of the post-graduate diploma on migration studies takes concrete shape.

Children are affected by migration in different ways: they are left behind by migrant parents; they are brought along by their migrating parents; and they migrate alone, independent of parents or other adult guardians.

Un nouveau centre médicala été inauguré le 18 mars dans le cadredu programmepour unemeilleure gestion des migrations (BMM), financé par l’Union européenne et le ministère fédéral allemand de la Coopération Economique et du Développement (BMZ).