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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...

News Hour: The number of vulnerable stranded migrants with immediate financial, health and protection needs requesting help from IOM Egypt, including assisted voluntary return to their country of origin, has spiked in 2016. “This has created...

News Hour: IOM Senegal and its partners, this week, launched a border management training course for police and customs officers in Senegal. The programme will run from 11-22 July. During the training at the Police School...

News Hour: IOM evacuation operations out of Yemen resumed this week with the voluntary return of 150 Ethiopian vulnerable migrants from Hodeidah, western Yemen, back to Ethiopia via Obock port, Djibouti. The group, which was comprised...

News Hour: To mark this year’s World Day against Trafficking in Persons, the Government of Ghana this week launched an information campaign to raise awareness of human trafficking. The campaign will run through the end of...

News Hour: IOM and its partners the Colombian Consulate in Buenos Aires, the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Colombia Nos Une programme, and the National University of Tres de Febrero’s Institute of Migration Policies and Asylum...

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: 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: 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...