January Newsletter 2025 brings the latest updates and insights on R&T' projects.As we step into the new year, we wish for a year of peace and healing, especially after the hardships endured in many parts of the world. From Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine, Sudan, to the lake Chad Basin, the past year has brought unimaginable suffering and devastation, leaving civilian populations caught in relentless violence and insecurity.

- The combined evaluation of the European Union's humanitarian interventions is about to be completed. - The creation of a directory and information management system (DIMS) for Civil Society Organizations engaged in the provision of services to affected populations is underway - R&T is designing and developing a regional human rights approach and programming to counter trafficking.

Roots &Transition (R&T) engaged to design and develop a regional human rights approach to counter trafficking, to ensure the protection of the rights of the presumed victims is put at the centre of anti-trafficking policies.

Roots and Transition (R&T) has been selected to contribute to the combined evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian interventions in the Horn of Africa, 2016-2020, and DG ECHO's programmatic partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

In an ever more urbanising world, peacekeepers will increasingly operate in cities. In a recent article, the authors analyse how attacks against the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) affected the peacekeepers’ ability to operate in Mogadishu.

The rapid escalation this year, in a West African nation not long ago held up as an ex ample of peaceful religious and ethnic coexistence, has caught aid groups and the government by surprise.

The Horn of Africa serves as a critical hub for mixed migration and is a source, transit and destination area for asylum seekers and socio-economic migrants from throughout the region, as well as middle-east. There is also evidence that region is a source, destination, and transit country for girls, boys, women and men. 

Dramatic scenes have been playing out in recent days at the land and sea borders between Greece and Turkey: Greek police tear-gassing and pushing back crowds of asylum seekers at a northern border crossing;

Environmental factors leading to and as an effect of migration and displacement must be integrated across all areas of migration management, such as: preparedness, response and durable solutions. Roots and Transition calls for increasing the capacities in research, policy and advocacy efforts, and operational activities in the area of migration, environment and climate change.