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The East and Horn of Africa borders are some of the busiest in the world, as they cut across key migration routes to Europe and the Gulf countries.

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.

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.

Ethiopian Mihiret was only fifteen years old when a man lured her family into sending her away to the city on a promise of a better education.

On 23-24 May 2018 the Better Migration Management Programme (BMM) facilitated a workshop for the border agencies at Nimule along the border with Uganda.