DRD & ACBC Donor Visit to Tanzania Study Tour to Holili (Tanzania/Kenya) OSBP under construction

Current border post Tanzania side

ACBC's Marcellino Ramkishun briefing the delegates on OSBP

Tanzania side of OSBP under final stages of construction

Training on intelligence and risk analysis on border management

“Threats are real in Uganda and the entire country is looking at you to determine the security of the country”, stressed the Commissioner for Immigration control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Anthony Namara, at the opening of the training on intelligence and risk analysis on border management organized by the International Organization for Migration from 22^nd to 24^th September, 2014.

Representatives of various border management, security and intelligence agencies of Uganda participated at three day training and discussed immigration intelligence, identifying risk management to enhance the border security to cope with threats like terrorism, organized crime and disease outbreaks such as the Ebola outbreak. The commissioner pointed out the importance of improving the interaction within the agencies to strengthen the security of Uganda: “information is the power to achieve the objectives to accomplish for the good of our country”.

As a land lock country, border control is crucial to secure the stability of Uganda and regulate movements of goods and people: “Your role is vital as you are the gate keepers of Uganda with the keys that determine who enters to the country”, highlighted the Integrated Border Management Specialist of IOM African Capacity Building Center, Marcellino Ramkishun during the training.  

The training was held under the “Strengthening Border Management in Uganda” project implemented by IOM Uganda in close cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and funded by the Government of Japan. The project runs until the end of December 2014 and targets the improvement of the institutional, infrastructural and human resource capacities of the Government of Uganda to better manage its borders and supports increased border security.

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ACBC Trains Somali Police Officers in Human Trafficking Investigation.

In its ongoing efforts according to the IOM mandate and to the Country Office, IOM, under the project Prevention of Trafficking, Gender Based Violence and Protection and Care for Victims in Somalia, conducted three day training, in Moshi. The workshop for the Somali Anti Trafficking Police Unit took place from 8^th to 11^th, December, 2014.10 police officers including their Director of Investigation and two female officers from the Unit, took part in the training. The workshop aimed at enhancing the Somali Anti Trafficking Police Unit on; understanding transnational Organized crime and Human Trafficking, the investigation process and approaches, assistance and protection of victims and the link between gender and human trafficking.

Speaking to the ACBC media focal point –Pamela Kyando, the female CT officers, Lul Saleban Ali and Sainab Abdullahi Hassan, stated, “We are happy with the training, although it is difficult to work in the Anti- Trafficking Unit, because it involves organized crime, also our location, but through this training session we have learnt a lot, especially how to detect traffickers and how to support and assist the victims of trafficking.”

While the training included theories and concepts on Counter Trafficking, its aim was to support the functions and services of the police, as practically as possible, in accordance to the developments made to date in Counter Trafficking projects, in Somalia.

When asked about the effectiveness of the training, the Director of Department of Immigration, Abdirashid Ali Ahmed, said, “We will be sending more Somalis in the Counter Trafficking Unit to ACBC, we cannot be the only ones with these skills, we need this knowledge to be disseminated to all the police officers in Somalia.”  

Tarakea Border Post Study Tour

A visit to the Tarakea border post between Tanzania and Kenya was carried out on 8 January 2015 by IOM-ACBC officials in order fact-find and assess the border management needs of Tanzania along the Namanga – Tanga axis.

The border from Namanga to Tanga, on the coast, is the only part of the Tanzanian border which has not yet received IOM border management assistance and the Tarakea border was identified as a possible staging area for migrant smuggling from Kenya into Tanzania.

The Tarakea border post is located at coordinates 2°59'28.5"S 37°34'05.1"E and is a small-sized border crossing on the northern side of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Counter Trafficking in South Sudan

The government of South Sudan in association and partnership with IOM Juba and the IOM African Capacity Building Centre conducted a five day training on Counter Migrant Smuggling and Counter Human trafficking for the  South Sudan DNPI-Directorate of Nationality Passports and immigration. Participants were from the DNPI SSCS anti smuggling units, DNPI crime control and the South Sudan judiciary). One of the major outcomes of this intervention is the proposed Counter Migrant smuggling /Counter Human Trafficking  Unit that the DNPI has requested IOM provide assistance in establishing, further that ACBC assist in the training on the investigation of the smuggling of Migrants at the centre in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.

IOM African Capacity Building Centre Celebrates Five Years of Training in Tanzania

Posted on Tue, Oct-14-2014 

Tanzania - IOM’s African Capacity Building Centre in Tanzania this week celebrated five years in operation. Since 2009 it has trained some 3,500 border officials from 47 countries in border management and migration.

But the work of ACBC is not only aimed at improving the migration capacity of African states. Ultimately it is migrants themselves that should reap the benefits of enhanced and effective systems of migration management, according to IOM Tanzania Chief of Mission Damien Thuriaux.

For example, when the ACBC conducted an assessment of the border resident card regime along the Angola-Namibia border in 2013, multi-stakeholder consultations included the views of Angolan migrants residing in border areas, who make frequent border crossings to meet their daily needs, he notes. 

"The ACBC, which is hosted by the Tanzania Regional Training Academy (TRITA) in Moshi, will also diversify its training programme to include new subjects such as migration, environment and climate change, and migration and health," he added.

At the regional level, the ACBC has promoted integration and cooperation on border and migration management issues between African States. It has also provided capacity building assistance to the East African Community States on the implementation of the Common Market Protocol, which allows for the free movement of persons and workers, through a series of trainings and consultations.

Immigration officers from West African states have also been trained on the legal framework for tackling smuggling and trafficking, as laid down by the ECOWAS protocol on the free movement of persons.

Among the ACBC's success stories are its work in South Sudan, where ACBC staff delivered training on detection of forged documents and impostors to border guards from Juba International airport and three border crossing along Ugandan (Nimule and Kaya) and Kenyan (Nadapal) borders in 2013.

Held as part of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office-funded Capacity Building for Migration Management project, the training enabled one immigration officer to apprehend an individual travelling on a forged passport a few days later.

In Nigeria the ACBC also helped to establish the first ever National Intelligence Unit for the Nigerian Immigration Services. This was in response to the relatively new terrorist threat, a steady rise in human trafficking and the growth in irregular migration routes from Nigeria to Europe.

Under an EU-funded IOM project, "Promoting Better Management of Migration in Nigeria", IOM set up and equipped the unit with networked computers, uninterruptible power supply systems, printers and software to process raw information and develop intelligence packages for dissemination to appropriate Nigerian law enforcement agencies.

IOM Tanzania Chief of Mission, Damien Thuriaux, stated that "In future years the ACBC will pursue closer cooperation with African member states on migration governance."

For more information, please contact

IOM Tanzania

Damien Thuriaux
Tel: +255 786 585 853
Email: dthuriaux@iom.int

or

Marcellino Ramkishun
RTS-Immigration and Border Management
IOM - African Capacity Building Centre (ACBC)
Tel:+255 27 275 3466
Mobile: +255 689 1914 83
Email: mramkishun@iom.int