Friday 21 September 2007

Ghana to have migration policy soon

Cabinet has approved the setting up of a Migration Unit within the Ministry of the Interior to develop a migration policy framework for the country. The proposed policy would, among others, regularise the stay of foreign nationals in the country and collate data on Ghanaians resident abroad.

The Minister of State at the Ministry of the Interior, Nana Obiri Boahen, who made this known, said the proposed unit would co-ordinate the national activities in the area of migration with the view to "addressing the relationship between migration and development".

He was speaking in Accra yesterday at the opening of a four-day African migration workshop on Understanding the Migration Dynamics on the Continent. [Read more]

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