Population movements and integration policy

The dynamic created by the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region in 2006 is intended to be one of the ways out of the multifaceted crisis affecting the sub-region. The primary objective was achieved with the adoption of the Nairobi Pact by the States of the sub-region, which is currently being ratified by the parliaments of the States parties. This pact puts in place protocols and action programmes conducive to the emergence of a zone of peace, stability and shared prosperity. However, we note a duplication of frameworks and even more different policy orientations according to the architecture of existing sub-regional organisations in the same sub-region (CEPGL, CEAE, COMESA,...), but also specific measures sometimes contrary adopted by each of the States at the internal level. And despite the policies adopted within the framework of these intergovernmental organisations, each State has its own vision and its own objectives relating to its own interests. The result is problems in controlling official and illegal migratory flows, coupled with a lack of political will to promote integration.