Development

News Hour: Twenty-four innovative agri-tech projects have today been awarded a share of £16 million funding through the latest round of the government’s Agri-Tech Catalyst to solve some of the world’s greatest agricultural challenges – from...

News Hour: IOM organized a voluntary repatriation charter flight from Libya to Guinea for 173 stranded Guinean migrants. The operation, in close cooperation with Guinea’s Embassy in Libya and the Libyan Department for Combating Illegal Migration...

News Hour: The number of vulnerable stranded migrants with immediate financial, health and protection needs requesting help from IOM Egypt, including assisted voluntary return to their country of origin, has spiked in 2016. “This has created...

News Hour: Approximately two-thirds of men, women, boys and girls in countries where female genital mutilation is common say they want the practice to end – according to UNICEF data. In countries with available data, 67...

News Hour: IOM Senegal and its partners, this week, launched a border management training course for police and customs officers in Senegal. The programme will run from 11-22 July. During the training at the Police School...

News Hour: IOM evacuation operations out of Yemen resumed this week with the voluntary return of 150 Ethiopian vulnerable migrants from Hodeidah, western Yemen, back to Ethiopia via Obock port, Djibouti. The group, which was comprised...

News Hour: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the National Statistics Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic (NSC) signed today a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve the analysis and dissemination of food security statistics...

News Hour: An international seminar to strengthen the public health emergency response capacity of South Korean humanitarian workers took place in Seoul today, bringing together 50 participants from the government, medical institutions, universities, civil society and...

News Hour: The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, will visit Malawi next week at a time when the country is facing its worst food security crisis in decades. Ms....

News Hour: To mark this year’s World Day against Trafficking in Persons, the Government of Ghana this week launched an information campaign to raise awareness of human trafficking. The campaign will run through the end of...