Deputy PM calls for community based efforts to address human smuggling

Addis Ababa, March 3, 2021 (FBC) – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke  Mekonnen has called for community based efforts to address human smuggling.

Addressing participants of the national forum underway to tackle human trafficking and smuggling, Demeke stressed need to wide-ranging participatory action to tackle human smuggling emphasizing need to consolidate community based preventive activities.

A public mobilization forum focused at seeking possible mechanism to fight human trafficking and smuggling underway in Addis Ababa in the presence of high ranking government officials including Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke  Mekonnen.