East Africa: Migration Within the Horn - Balancing Regional Integration and National Interests

The Life & Peace Institute's Horn of Africa Regional Program held its first Horn of Africa Bulletin Forum (HABForum) on 'Mobility and Migration in in the Horn of Africa: East African Migrants in South Sudan'. The Forum, which was held on Oct. 1st, was opened by the South Sudanese Ambassador to Ethiopia, and convened civil society actors, international organizations, IGAD and the African Union.

The objective of the Forum was to shed light on a less discussed type of migration in the Horn of Africa where migrants in the region stay in the region in search of economic opportunities by looking at the case of South Sudan.

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