Somalia's Minister of Internal Security, Gen. Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail Fartaag, launched the Regional Counter-Smuggling Programme in Mogadishu on July 23.
The initiative partners the Federal Government with the UK Border Security Command and IOM to strengthen airport border security.
Ethiopian federal police have arrested 17 suspects accused of running a major human trafficking ring linked to the deaths of more than 60 migrants and the extortion of over 1 billion birr.
