Migration
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IOM provides assistance to asylum seekers and refugees fleeing Burundi for Tanzania
Jun 21, 2016News Hour: For 14 months since April 2015 political instability in Burundi has led to tens of thousands of Burundians, and other Third Country Nationals (TCNs) residing there, to flee the country and seek refuge in... -
Construction of Puntland Immigration Headquarters in Garowe begins with IOM support
Jun 21, 2016News Hour: IOM and Puntland’s Ministry for Security and Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) earlier this month (08/06) held a groundbreaking ceremony to launch the construction of the ministry’s immigration headquarters in Garowe, Puntland State of... -
Four in five Syrian refugees struggle below the poverty line
Jun 21, 2016News Hour: A startling four in five Syrian refugees in Jordan are living below the poverty line, an increase from 2015, says a new study from CARE International. The report, “Six years into exile”, points to... -
IMF MD Christine Lagarde give statement about her Visit to Austria
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), made the following statement in Vienna, “It is a great pleasure to be in Austria, my first visit as the Managing Director of... -
Dead bodies found on the sahara migration route
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: Save the Children said, “Reports that 34 people, 20 of them children, have been found dead in the Sahara desert, is yet another tragic example of lives lost along the refugee and migrant route.”... -
Niger deaths add to growing toll of migrant fatalities within Africa
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: IOM notes the shocking discovery this week of the remains of 34 migrants near the Algeria-Niger border which brings to 471 the number of deaths and disappearances recorded on the African continent this year... -
IOM facilitates voluntary repatriation of Nigerian migrants held in Libyan prisons
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: IOM Libya yesterday (16/6) assisted 162 stranded Nigerians migrants, including 28 women and 3 children, to return home to Nigeria from Libya. Of the group, 146 had spent months in immigration detention centres, namely... -
IOM provides essential household items for 22,500 in Nigeria’s Borno State
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: IOM in Nigeria has provided essential household items, which include blankets, mats, soap, buckets, basins, plates, cups and cooking pots to about 22,500 people (an estimated 3,000 households) in the recently accessible town of... -
IOM shapes ability to protect child migrants of Central America
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: Nearly three hundred representatives of civil society and the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras were trained by IOM on issues such as national policy and the international protection framework for migrant children... -
IOM distributes NFI Kits as displacement continues from Fallujah, Iraq
Jun 17, 2016News Hour: After months of being unable to leave the city and living under siege, thousands of Iraqi families are currently fleeing the fighting in Fallujah via two main bridges, which were opened yesterday, 16 June....
