Development

News Hour: This month IOM Ethiopia has relocated some 12,763 South Sudanese refugees from a transit site at the Pagak border entry point to Jewi, Tierkidi and Kule camps in Gambella region. “The situation in South...

News Hour: Economic developments in Cambodia in 2016 have broadly unfolded as expected, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released today. ADB, in an update of its flagship annual economic publication, Asian Development Outlook...

News Hour: Pay No Bribe (PNB) is an innovative reporting platform where citizens can anonymously report incidents of petty corruption and bribery. Citizens can register an incident by calling a hotline phone number (515), the PNB...

News Hour: World Bank Senior Vice President for Operations Kyle Peters pledged continued support for Afghanistan on a two-day visit to Kabul that discussed government preparations for the Ministerial Conference on Afghanistan in Brussels in October...

News Hour: Kenyan Olympian Julius Yego locked horns with the illegal trade in wildlife on World Rhino Day, joining a huge global campaign to conserve endangered species. Yego, a silver medalist in the Javelin at the...

News Hour: More than 100,000 Iraqis have been displaced since 16 June 2016 by military operations to retake ISIL-occupied areas in the Mosul corridor. IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix identified that the majority of the recently displaced...

News Hour: IOM and the Egyptian Ministry of Interior (MoI) organized a training from 18 to 22 September for 19 government officials on passport examination procedures in order to strengthen security procedures at Egyptian entry and...

News Hour: The number of people fleeing violence, threats, extrajudicial killings, abduction, torture and persecution in Burundi has passed the 300,000 mark some 18 months after the political crisis in the central African nation erupted in...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank has raised 9 billion Indian Rupees (INR), about $135 million, from a new issue of offshore Indian Rupee-linked 10 year bonds. This represents ADB’s fifth bond issue in the offshore...

News Hour: The Government of Belgium, represented by the Ministry of Development Cooperation, yesterday signed a framework agreement with IOM. From 2017 onward, the Belgian Government intends to provide multi-annual funding to IOM in order to...