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Urgent appeal to confront unfolding migration crisis in Horn of Africa
Oct 17, 2016News 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... -
IOM Haiti sent truck convoy to areas worst hit by Hurricane Matthew
Oct 16, 2016News 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... -
Japan supports to build shelter for displaced iraqis
Oct 16, 2016News Hour: IOM in Iraq is providing emergency shelter and camp coordination and camp management (CCCM) support for more than 12,900 internally displaced Iraqis living in camps in Fallujah district, Anbar governorate. These activities are made... -
Biometric registration of nearly 40,000 in Juba displacement sites completed
Oct 15, 2016News Hour: Over 38,800 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are sheltering at the UN protection of civilian (PoC) sites in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, according to a recently completed biometric registration exercise. While the majority... -
Senior Sudanese immigration officers on border management got training
Oct 15, 2016News Hour: This week 20 senior officers from the Sudanese General Directorate of Passports and Immigration completed a five-day advanced course in border management concepts and techniques. Participants were briefed on regional and global migration trends;... -
PLURAL+ youth videos screened at Hamptons International Film Festival
Oct 15, 2016News Hour: For the second year running, the Hamptons International Film Festival last week (07/10) hosted middle and high school students and educators from across New York for a program addressing issues of migration, forced displacement,... -
Rohingas in Bangladesh border camps need increased protection, humanitarian aid
Oct 14, 2016News Hour: IOM, the UN Migration Agency, is stepping up its ‘protection by presence’ initiative in and around unofficial migrant settlements in the Cox’s Bazar region of South East Bangladesh. Extra staff have been deployed to... -
154 Nigerians return home from Libya
Oct 14, 2016News Hour: IOM assisted 154 stranded Nigerian migrants, including 98 women, one infant and three children, to return home to Nigeria from Libya. Of the group, 153 had spent several months in the Al Fallah and... -
Emergency kits distributes to families affected by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti
Oct 13, 2016News Hour: IOM is making available to partners 8,000 emergency kits provided by USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) to assist families most affected by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti. Delivery of the kits started in... -
Medical clinics established at Libyan disembarkation points
Oct 11, 2016News Hour: IOM Libya, in coordination with the Libyan Coast Guard and Libyan Port Security, has established three fully equipped medical clinics at the country’s main migrant disembarkation points in Tripoli, Garaboli and Zliten. The clinics,...
