emergency trust fund for africa

Migrants board a plane to return to Nigeria from Libya. Return programs such as this are of particular interest to Germany | Photo: Yousef Mourad/picture alliance
  • Chad
  • Ethiopia
  • Germany

How Germany manages EU funds in Africa

Germany is the biggest state donor to the European Union's Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, which was established in 2015 to curb irregular migration to the EU. Where did that money go? And what comes next?

To avoid people setting out on an often dangerous journey to Europe — for example across the Mediterranean Sea, as in this photo from August 2021 — the EU created the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa to fight the root causes of migration in 2015 | Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/REUTERS
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Sudan

How the EU spent billions to halt migration from Africa

Fight irregular migration, return and reintegrate migrants, create more legal pathways to the EU: The European Union set high goals with its Emergency Trust Fund for Africa. DW examines whether the EUTF achieved them.

An archive picture of African migrants crossing the Egyptian border at Sallum in 2011 | Photo: Imago / Xinhua
  • Morocco

African migration observatory to begin work in February

The African Migration Observatory was inaugurated at the end of December 2020 and will begin work in February 2021. One of its main aims is to collect information to establish better migratory policies and invite a more balanced view of the topic on the continent.

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson meets the Moroccan Minister of the Interior Abdelouafi Laftit | Source: Twitter feed from Ylva Johansson @YlvaJohansson
  • Canary Islands
  • Morocco
  • Spain

EU set to improve cooperation with Morocco regarding migration

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson traveled to Morocco for a two-day visit this week. Her aim was to improve cooperation with Morocco on the return of migrants and start the discussion over visa facilitation.

A Libyan coast guard officer escorting a boy at the port of Tripoli, Libya | Photo: EPA/STR
  • Libya

Complaint with EU Court over pushbacks in Libya

A group of organizations in Italy has lodged a complaint with the EU's financial watchdog, the European Court of Auditors. They say European financing of a program to stop migrants from leaving Libya violates EU and international laws.