Post-Pandemic Cooperation between Africa and Europe: Five Ways to Improve the Partnership on Migration and Mobility

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has laid bare the glaring double standard in the European response to refugees fleeing wars. Refugees and migrants from non-European countries, particularly those from the Global South (Africa, Asia, Middle East), face racial discrimination and xenophobic attacks while fleeing wars to bordering European countries. The stark differential response can partially be attributed to the country ...

There Is a Path to Peace in Tigray

In the eyes of the people of Tigray, there is a clear route to peace, but it will require tough decisions, starting with a willingness to accede to the people’s most essential demands. The suffering of the people of Tigray and neighboring regions is well documented. This war is now strangling the region with what ...

AU – EU Sixth Summit: Building the new post-pandemic partnership on migration and mobility

Original article posted at: https://blogs.eui.eu/migrationpolicycentre/au-eu-sixth-summit-building-the-new-post-pandemic-partnership-on-migration-and-mobility/ The Sixth Summit of the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) held with much fanfare from 17 to 18 February 2022 has concluded with the declaration of A Joint Vision for 2030. The two bodies renewed their partnership to build a common future, as close partners and neighbours with ...

PEACE AND SECURITY AS DRIVERS OF STABILITY,
DEVELOPMENT AND SAFE MIGRATION

In early 2020, as COVID-19 was beginning to spread globally, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appealed for a global ceasefire, calling on all warring parties to “silence guns” and focus on fighting a pandemic that had left no country untouched. The Secretary-General’s words recognized that despite an ongoing global health crisis, insecurity, violence and conflict ...

Joint UN, Ethiopia Atrocities Report: Poison Fruit of Poisonous Tree

The joint United Nations (UN) and Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) investigation is like a ham omelette: the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed. In this investigation, the UN only reluctantly became involved in demonstrating its efforts in investigating atrocity crimes, while the EHRC was committed to defending the government of Ethiopia – ...

There is need for a truly independent probe into Ethiopia abuses

A pig and a chicken open a breakfast restaurant together, and their speciality is bacon and eggs. What’s the difference between the chicken and the pig? The chicken is involved, but the pig is committed. For the chicken, it’s just an easy day’s work to lay a few eggs. But for the pig, it’s a ...

Has the Pandemic Become an Excuse for Curbing Visitors from the Global South?

Original article at: https://www.henleyglobal.com/publications/global-mobility-report/2021-q4/global-mobility-trends/has-pandemic-become-excuse-curbing-visitors-global-south Restrictive policies introduced to contain the spread of Covid-19 may now be conveniently applied to contain mobility from the global south to the global north. These Covid-19-related restrictions should have been reviewed pari passu with vaccination and infection rates, and with other mechanisms employed to slow down the spread of the virus. However, in ...

Global rivalry in the Red Sea : a ‘geopolitical’ European Union should encourage cooperation in the Red Sea region

In 2018, the Council of the European Union adopted conclusions on the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea, finding that there was ‘renewed geopolitical competition on both shores of the Red Sea’. The EU further stressed that ‘at stake are the preservation of the security of the Bab el Mandeb maritime route through which ...