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News Hour: An IOM Iraq team has visited the recently retaken area of Qayara to hand over the Qayara Airstrip emergency site to contractors, and to distribute 350 winter non-food item (NFI) kits to people from...

News Hour: Over half the world’s 21 million victims of forced labour are in the Asia-Pacific region. The majority work in the formal economy – making the clothes we wear, harvesting the food we eat and...

News Hour: A major humanitarian catastrophe has been averted in the Philippines, thanks to efficient preparedness and evacuation measures by the Philippine government and its partners. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated on Wednesday night...

News Hour: Document fraud is one of the most widespread types of fraud, and is one of the main problems facing the Nigerien border police. Despite technical progress, it is still a growing phenomenon. In August...

News Hour: IOM Haiti distributed non-food relief items (NFIs) to 200 households affected by Hurricane Matthew in Jeremie, Haiti, on 16 October. Each household received two plastic sheet tarpaulins and one hygiene kit, provided by USAID’s...

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: 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: 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: 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...