Development

News Hour: IOM has condemned the violence that broke out in South Sudan’s capital Juba days after the country’s fifth anniversary of independence and welcomed a ceasefire declared yesterday by the warring factions. President Salva Kiir...

News Hour: IOM today announced that it will establish a Global Migration Data Portal with financial backing from Germany. The portal will be housed at IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in Berlin and will...

News Hour: IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will provide a loan equal to 450 billion Indonesian Rupiah (approximately 33 million US Dollars) to B. Braun Melsungen AG operations in Indonesia to help finance...

News Hour: IOM last week (6-8 July) organized a three-day training on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) in Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop, which brought together 35 health assessment physicians from across Africa, was designed to enhance...

News Hour: Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao today met with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to discuss how the institution can support the new administration’s efforts in promoting sustainable growth, reducing poverty, and increasing transparency...

News Hour: IOM has identified 430,062 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in seven districts in Somalia after piloting its Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) in the country from April to May 2016. The DTM was rolled out across...

News Hour: This week IOM hosted a three-day policymaker training workshop on migration, environment and climate change in Quatre Bornes, Mauritius. The European Union-funded workshop – organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment, Sustainable Development,...

News Hour: Students at the National Police Academy of Costa Rica are taking an IOM-designed course to enable them to better assist and protect migrants in vulnerable situations. Graduates of this training, which finishes tomorrow (13/07),...

News Hour: Oxfam has given a cautious welcome to the ceasefire announced in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, that comes after four days of heavy fighting. Oxfam’s Country Director in South Sudan, Zlatko Gegic, said: “With caution...

News Hour: The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today $216.5 million in financing to support a new government project that will improve infrastructure in Indonesia’s slum areas and benefit more than 9.7 million urban...