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News Hour The number of migrants currently residing in South Korea hit a record high of two million this year. “As the countries of origin of these migrants diversify, the need for an awareness-raising activities has...

News Hour Over the last decade, countries in Southern Africa have been hit by recurrent and frequent floods, droughts and strong cyclones, which have resulted in the displacement of people in both urban and rural areas....

News Hour The humanitarian community will soon be able to better coordinate support for northeast Nigeria, where nearly seven million people are in need of life-saving assistance. This is thanks to the setting up of a...

News Hour IOM Niger’s border management team earlier this week (5/12) launched the Community Engagement on Border Management Mechanism in Niger project in the capital, Niamey. The USD 990,000 project, funded by the United States, will...

News Hour: IOM’s 107th Council – the first since the agency entered the United Nations starts Monday, 5 December, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. It will run through 8 December. The Council will...

News Hour: Winter rains and plunging temperatures have hit northern Iraq in the past two days, posing additional challenges for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and communities affected by military operations around Mosul. Current displacement from Mosul...

News Hour: IOM Turkey is on course to rehabilitate the accommodation of 250 Syrian families by 31 December 2016, under a pilot scheme in Sanliurfa province. The project, funded by the Norwegian government began in October...

News Hour: IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in Berlin is today hosting a conference to advance discussion on how countries can agree to a common set of principles, approaches and priorities to improve data...

News Hour: The Republic of Korea has contributed USD 400,000 to IOM to provide support to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and other conflict-affected communities in Yemen. Nearly two years since conflict escalated in Yemen, the situation...

News Hour: “Poorly managed migration could contribute to the global impact of AIDS, but migration itself is not a cause for the disease,” said IOM Director General William Lacy Swing on World AIDS Day, December 1....