Development

News Hour: The United States resettled 84,994 refugees during fiscal year (FY) 2016 ending September 30th – just six people short of the 85,000 target set by the Obama administration last year. At the same time,...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $109 million loan to support flood risk management for communities in the Banten and Maluku provinces of Indonesia to enhance preparation for future threats while ensuring...

News Hour: IOM Director General William Lacy Swing last week briefed the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf for the first time at the United Nations in New York with the aim of...

News Hour: The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has provided funding for IOM to implement a project to contribute to stabilization of conflict-affected communities in Diyala governorate, Iraq. The one-year project aims to...

News Hour: Nearly three years after conflict erupted in South Sudan, the regional impact of the crisis is rising alarmingly as the number of South Sudanese crossing international borders in search of safety grows each day....

News Hour: Ford Motor Company Fund is bringing the Ford Driving Dreams initiative to students in the Detroit area. Ford Fund, in collaboration with First Book, is donating 10,000 new books to kindergarten through elementary school...

News Hour: The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously backed Antonio Guterres, the former prime minister of Portugal who was the UN’s refugee chief for a decade, to be the next secretary-general. During a closed-door meeting,...

News Hour: The Haitian authorities have postponed presidential and legislative elections originally set for Sunday because of the havoc caused by Hurricane Matthew, election officials said on Wednesday. The impoverished Caribbean nation’s last elections, in 2015,...

News Hour: South Korea cleaned up on Thursday after Typhoon Chaba lashed its southern coast with powerful winds and heavy rains that triggered flash floods and left six people dead and four missing. The violent storm...

News Hour: Twenty-eight Europe-bound migrants were found dead on a day of frantic rescues off Libya on Tuesday, including at least 22 in an overloaded wooden boat, an AFP photographer and the Italian coastguard said. The...