On Monday 26 February, the European Commission announced that over €150 million has been released, under the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, to finance three aid programmes for the voluntary return and reintegration of African migrants.
The biggest share of the funding (€115 million) will enable the commitments taken as part of the EU-African Union-UN task force to be fulfilled, so as to come to the aid of migrants blocked in Libya. This regional programme aims to protect and...