{"id":276969,"date":"2019-05-24T05:37:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T09:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEI74zB_USYXhNQiZfM0v6QgqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4OH9CjCg6_UCMJ-42gU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:53:52","slug":"the-eu-added-e18-million-to-an-iom-horn-of-africa-migrant-protection-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276969","title":{"rendered":"The EU added \u20ac18 million to an IOM Horn of Africa migrant-protection fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 ReliefWeb carried an IOM notice saying the European Union had committed another \u20ac18 million to the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration in the Horn of Africa, lifting the EU total for the regional effort to about \u20ac43 million.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The EU added \u20ac18 million to an IOM Horn of Africa migrant-protection fund\" \/>\n<p>The program, running from 2017 toward 2021, focused mainly on Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somalia, and it aimed to save lives along desert and sea routes while helping returnees rebuild at home.<\/p>\n<p>Extra European money for assisted return and protection sat beside Gulf labor cracks and Mediterranean deaths, and it showed how donors treated Horn migration as both a humanitarian and border-management file.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as migration archive, the May 2019 top-up is a dated marker of EU\u2013IOM spending before later Red Sea and Mediterranean crises grew again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/ethiopia\/new-funding-eu-iom-joint-initiative-horn-africa\">ReliefWeb \/ IOM<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Funding for EU-IOM Joint Initiative in the Horn of Africa &#8211; Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;ReliefWebNairobi \u2013 The European Union (EU) has committed an additional EUR 18 million to its partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) known &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a3f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754901,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276969\/revisions\/754901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}