EU-IOM JOINT INITIATIVE MARKS 4 YEARS OF SUPPORTING THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS

ACROSS THE HORN OF AFRICA

Responsible Author: Rahma Sophia Rachdi & Jedi Foster | Paris, Washington DC, 04/06/2021, 19:38 Time

USPA NEWS - A partnership between the European Union (EU) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is marking four years of supporting over 12,000 vulnerable migrants, including children, to voluntarily return and re-establish their homes across the Horn of Africa.  Over half that total—some 6,300 men, women and children—are migrants assisted to voluntarily return to their countries of origin in Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan; having been stranded and detained in places like Libya.   Those returnees are among the over 8,200 who received support to reintegrate into their communities. The programme, the ‘EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration’ (the EU-IOM Joint Initiative), has to date committed over EUR 56 million providing for migrants in the Horn of Africa.   

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AFRICAN UNION MEMBERS STATES REPORTS 4,158,923 COVID-19 CASES AS OF 20 MARCH 21

109,444 DEATHS & 3,667,946 RECOVERIES

Responsible Author: Rahma Sophia Rachdi & Jedi Foster | Paris, Washington DC, 03/30/2021, 18:54 Time

USPA NEWS - Africa Union Member States (55) reporting COVID-19 cases (4,158,923), deaths (109,444) and recoveries (3,667,946) by region: CENTRAL (114,426 cases; 1,911 deaths; 100,654 recoveries): Burundi (2,563; 3; 1,155), Cameroon (38,988; 588; 34,887), CAR (5,075; 64; 4,938), Chad (4,380; 157; 3,864), Congo (9,564; 134; 7,898), DRC (27,356; 726; 24,361), Equatorial Guinea (6,666; 100; 6,121), Gabon (17,711; 106; 15,495), Sao Tome and Principe (2,123; 33; 1,935)
EASTERN (455,106; 8,275; 342,619): Comoros (3,665; 146; 3,471), Djibouti (6,501; 63; 6,040), Eritrea (3,118; 7; 2,865), Ethiopia (183,863; 2,618; 145,687), Kenya (118,889; 1,954; 89,388), Madagascar (22,113; 340; 20,851), Mauritius (803; 10; 590), Rwanda (20,681; 287; 19,143), Seychelles (3,616; 16; 3,055), Somalia (9,925; 414; 4,420), South Sudan (9,809; 106; 8,215), Sudan (30,989; 1,959; 23,583), Tanzania** (509; 21; 178), Uganda (40,625; 334; 15,133)
NORTHERN (1,222,852; 34,766; 1,073,689): Algeria (124,970; 3,053; 80,515), Egypt (194,127; 11,512; 149,256), Libya (150,341; 2,487; 137,073), Mauritania (17,570; 446; 16,863), Morocco (491,019; 8,755; 478,386), Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (49; 7; 35), Tunisia (244,776; 8,506;

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