Development

News Hour: IOM’s regional offices in Brussels and Nairobi, in partnership with the African Institute for Remittances (AIR), kicked off a 3-day “Peer-to-Peer Exchange” meeting in Nairobi focusing on remittances. Running through Wednesday (19/10), the meeting...

News Hour: The Egyptian Parliament has approved a new anti-human smuggling law safeguarding the rights and addressing the needs of smuggled migrants. The law, which is in line with international standards, stipulates imprisonment and substantial fines...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing an additional grant of $2.8 million for the ongoing South Tarawa Sanitation Improvement Sector Project to enhance access to improved sanitation infrastructure and services for South Tarawa’s...

News Hour: Libya’s community stabilization program by IOM has brought 24 participants from southern Libya – 12 from Al Qatrun and 12 from Sabha – to participate in a 13-day intensive Training of Trainers (TOT) programme....

News Hour: As the world marks World Food Day, the World Food Programme (WFP) in Uganda continues to make a meaningful difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable people. At the same time,...

News Hour: IOM is preparing an urgent appeal to donors in response to a refugee emergency unfolding in Yemen and Djibouti, impacting across the Horn of Africa region, including Ethiopia. The initial amount of the appeal...

News Hour: With 37 million people in informal or vulnerable jobs the equivalent of a third of the working population social safety nets in Eastern Europe, Turkey and Central Asia are increasingly coming under threat. A...

News Hour: Escorted by the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), a 26-truck IOM convoy carrying 28,500 non-food item kits (NFIs) left Port-au-Prince for the most-affected areas in the south of Haiti on 11 October. Four...

News Hour: To prepare for the expected displacement of people fleeing Mosul during military operations to retake the city from ISIL, IOM, at the request of the Government of Iraq and in collaboration with the Humanitarian...

News Hour: IOM in Iraq is providing emergency shelter and camp coordination and camp management (CCCM) support for more than 12,900 internally displaced Iraqis living in camps in Fallujah district, Anbar governorate. These activities are made...