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News Hour: IOM Guyana, with the support of IOM Jamaica, and in partnership with the Ministry of Social Protection and the US Embassy in Georgetown, has organized a series of three counter trafficking trainings. The workshops,...

News Hour: IOM medical staff are responding to an upsurge of suspected cholera cases in Juba and providing emergency medical care to civilians displaced by last week’s fighting in South Sudan’s capital. On 17 July, the...

News Hour: Dr. Jill Biden, the Second Lady of the United States, visited the IOM Refugee Transit Center in Addis Ababa. She was greeted by 70 singing refugees and IOM Ethiopia Chief of Mission and Representative...

News Hour: IOM and the National Institute of Mozambique Communities in the Diaspora (INACE) last week held a two-day forum to engage relevant government ministries and the diaspora to define concrete ways in which the diaspora...

News Hour: Sixteen immigration and border officers from Kenya’s Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government have completed a five-day training in Naivasha, Kenya, conducted by IOM immigration and border management experts from IOM’s African...

News Hour: IOM this week (17/7) opened the first job center in Borama, Somaliland. The center, funded by the Netherlands through Oxfam Novib – the Dutch affiliate of Oxfam – will provide a place where unemployed...

News Hour: At the request of the Government of Mali, IOM conducted a workshop in Bamako last week (11-15 July) to strengthen government and humanitarian actors’ capacity in displacement management in emergency situations. The workshop, which...

News Hour: A scantily-dressed, heavily made-up young woman has been rescued from a karaoke bar, where she has been forced to have sex with clients. She is five months pregnant and shaking from drug withdrawal. She...

News Hour: Civilians in Juba are facing an uncertain calm since a ceasefire was declared on Monday night, ending days of intense fighting that killed at least 300 people and forced thousands to flee their homes...

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...