Luanda - Angola will host the 8th Dialogue Conference on Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa (MIDSA) in October 2024, with a focus on the security of the common border and the movement of people and goods.
This is one of the recommendations that came out of the ministerial session of the 7th Dialogue Conference on Migration for Southern Africa, which ended on Friday afternoon in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
According to a note to which ANGOP had access, speaking at the session, the secretary of State for Public Administration, Amélia Varela, emphasised the privileged relations between the member states, which can be used to adopt platforms and mechanisms for concerted action, with regard to the management of migratory flows in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) area.
Amélia Varela, who was speaking on behalf of the Minister of Public Administration, Labour and Social Security, Teresa Dias, stressed that coordinated work between member states is the best mechanism that migration management bodies can draw with a view to discouraging irregular immigration, which is often associated with transnational crime and other international phenomena that undermine the principle of legality and social peace.
Over the years, MIDSA has achieved concrete results, including progressive policy recommendations for implementation, as well as the establishment of stronger partnerships.
MIDSA is an annual event organised by the current SADC Chairpersons and it holds ministerial meetings every six months since 2010.
However, between 2000 and 2023, a total of 21 conferences were convened on different topics related to migration. MIDSA recommendations are presented to SADC for implementation.
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