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Charles Nwanelo Anaelo is a Deputy Director (Humanitarian Affairs) Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. He was the Head of Migration Division of National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) from 2012 to 2019. Within the period, Nigeria Migration Policy and its implementation plan was elaborated and approved by the Federal Executive Council in 2015. He facilitated the institutionalization of National Migration Dialogue in 2014 and steered the affairs of the Nigeria Technical Working Group on Migration. Mr. Anaelo was and remains an irreplaceable member of Nigerian delegation to different migration international forums, bilateral and multilateral negotiations, including the Global Forum on Migration and development (GFMD) and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GFMD). Presently, he is, among other things, the desk officer on migration and refugees' issues at the ministry as well as the focal point for statelessness issues.
