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East Africa’s migration story is not just about Europe – what policymakers get wrong

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par Girmachew Adugna, Advisory Board Member, Research Center for Forced Displacement and Migration Studies, Addis Ababa University

Migration from east Africa and the Horn of Africa is often portrayed as a journey towards Europe. International news reporting typifies it as the mass movement of people from Ethiopia, Eritrea or Somalia, transiting through Sudan, Libya and the Mediterranean to reach Europe.

But the truth is that people would rather move closer to home: within the region, Gulf states and southern Africa. Around 87%…

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