In June 2022, the Research and Evidence Facility (REF) of the EU Trust Fund for Africa in the Horn of Africa convened its second international conference around the theme ‘Migrants and Forcibly Displaced Persons: Towards Greater Inclusion and Protection’.
The Research and Evidence Facility commissioned a rapid review of existing evidence on disability inclusion for refugees in Ethiopia, focusing on the experiences, protection needs, barriers and opportunities to providing protection.
Kiya Gezahegne, Department of Social Anthropology, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Abstract The pattern of migration from Ethiopia to Sudan, through the Metema border town, has proved complex and is expanding, making it difficult for government bodies to control and manage. Regardless of government efforts, every year substantial numbers of irregular migrants have been observed crossing the border into Sudan, some of them with the objective of going on to Europe.
By Kalyango Ronald Sebba. Uganda registered its first case of COVID 19 on 22 March 2020. With events evolving fast, the socio-economic impacts were not immediately clear, and the government framed the pandemic in terms of health rather than socio-economic factors,
By Oliver Bakewell What is migration management? Migration undoubtedly creates many challenges, as well as opportunities
By Georgia Cole A new displacement dynamic in the Horn of Africa is emerging from the implications of forced departures from Saudi Arabia.
New research conducted by the REF has reviewed recent literature on the links between migration, development and conflict in the Horn of Africa.
In January 2019 the REF convened the Changing Places forum in Nairobi to discuss themes related to migration, displacement and development across the Horn of Africa.
In our final post on this series, we highlight some of the complexities related to displacement and return that our study, Return and (Re)Integration after Displacement, has demonstrated.
The recently concluded London-Somalia conference held on 11 May 2017 brought together heads of states and governments from across the Horn and East Africa and other key partners as well as senior figures from international organisations. This was the third such conference, following similar events in 2012 and 2013. The aims of this year’s conference were to agree on coordinated support for a new security architecture, promote more inclusive, stable