Seminar on security and the problem of refugees in East Africa and the Horn of Africa

EU Special Representative for the Horn of Africa | European Union Special Representative for the Horn of Africa | EUSR for the Horn of Africa

EU-Horn of Africa Migration Route Initiative | Khartoum Process

Regional Consultation on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children in the Horn, Eastern, Central and Southern Africa

East African sleeping sickness Infection due to Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

African organisation [ African intergovernmental organisation | African intergovernmental organization | African organization | African regional organisation | African regional organization | Organisation of Central Africa | Organisation of East Africa | Organisation of Southern Africa | Organisation of West Africa | Organization of Central Africa | Organization of East Africa | Organization of Southern Africa | Organization of West Africa ]

The overall objective of this action is to support countries in Eastern Africa / Horn of Africa to address mixed migration flows.

From the Canadian International Development Agency: John Deyell, Regional Director, East Africa & the Horn, Africa and Middle Branch; John Jackson, Program Manager, Horn of Africa, Africa and Middle Branch; Susan Brown, Chief, Peacebuilding Unit, Multilateral Programmes Branch.

18. Welcomes the decision of 12 December 2011 by the Foreign Affairs Council to establish a regional maritime capacity-building initiative, known as EUCAP Nestor, in order to strengthen the maritime and judicial capabilities and training of coastal police forces and judges, in consultation with and with the consent of the local communities in five countries in the Horn of Africa and the western Indian Ocean; calls on all Member States to staff the new mission without delay with competent civilian and military personnel; calls for close coordination with other initiatives, including the EU’s MARSIC project, under the Critical Maritime R ...[+++]outes Programme sponsored by the Instrument for Stability and the regional Maritime Security Programme (MASE), initiated by the countries of the Eastern and Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region and supported by the EU, and aimed at tackling piracy on land and enhancing judicial capacities to arrest, transfer, detain and prosecute piracy suspects; believes that only by enhancing the coastal security capabilities of the riparian countries, addressing the root causes of piracy on land and encouraging adherence to the BMP4 Best Management Practices for shipping and improved standards for the maritime security industry, will the international community be able to achieve the wider goal of stability and security for the region and therefore reduce the need for naval patrols in the area;

E. whereas the original Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) group which launched the negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union on 7 February 2004 comprised 16 countries, which include Indian Ocean Islands (Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles), Horn of Africa countries (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan), the East African Community (EAC) members (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) and Southern African countries (Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe); whereas only six of these 16 count ...[+++]ries have initialled the ‘ESA’ interim EPA, of which two have decided not to sign (Zambia and Comoros), two have notified provisional implementation (Mauritius and Madagascar) and only two have ratified (Zimbabwe and Seychelles);