A 26-year-old Ethiopian migrant, Ahmed, spent 20 days travelling from Ethiopia to Djibouti on foot, bound for the coastal town…
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The International Organisation for Migration has published a new, pioneering guidance for member states on the regulation of international recruitment…
Closed borders and mobility restrictions occasioned by the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic have seen hundreds of thousands of people, among them…
The reluctance of countries to provide save harbour from Libya is signalling a need for a change in approach to…
Weeks of torrential rain have hit Burundi affecting 45,000 people and sweeping away thousands of homes and businesses, leaving 18,000…
Thousands of migrant traders across Africa, particularly in the Sahel region, are being held hostage by the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic. …
The number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the East Africa/Horn of Africa is dropping largely due to the return…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is still facing the last phase of its Ebola virus epidemic and confronting…
Despite border restrictions in the Middle-East due to the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic, African migrants are still exploiting the region to…
The United Nations migration agency is currently assisting African miners who fled violence last month in Burkina Faso’s southern district. …
After fleeing clashes in Diebougou, a gold mining region in Burkina Faso’s south, over 1,300 Nigeriens are currently stranded in…
In Iraq, a UN agency is appealing to the international community for $20,450,000 to contribute to halting further transmission of…
Many rural communities in Chad are ‘disconnected’ from critical COVID-19 sensitisation messages. Why? The communities are ‘excluded’ from radio and…
Over the past year, Northern Mozambique has been reeling from nature’s blows. First, it was the Cyclone, and now the…
For millions of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in North-East Nigeria, COVID-19 pandemic will have devastating consequences. Throughout the volatile region,…
The fate of hundreds of migrants who were returned to Libya by the coast guard this year is now unaccounted…
The Netherlands is currently funding a peer-to-peer awareness-raising campaign that empowers young people in West Africa to make informed decisions…
The government of Guinea-Bissau is receiving a United Nations support in its effort to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the…
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has expanded its COVID-19 respond plan. It has also launched a revised appeal for…
Ethiopia is facing ‘’strengthening measures’’ to curb the rampaging global coronavirus pandemic. The unexpected arrival of more than 5,000 migrant…
A 21-year-old Mariam, the eldest of five children, left Burkina Faso after her father’s death to support her family and…
More people are still migrating to other countries, especially those within their region, going by the World Migration Report 2020…
More than two months after a female volunteer of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in South Sudan, was murdered…
Nepal has launched a new Migration Profile that will help its workers to compete in global job markets. The Profile…
In contrast to nearby Middle East states like Jordan and Lebanon, Iraq hosts the lowest number of immigrants in proportion…
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), an agency of the United Nations, and the Cambodian National Centre for Tuberculosis and…
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has started the process of relocating Venezuelans currently living in the city of Manaus,…
An Estonian filmmaker, Madli Lääne, has taken home the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) fourth annual Global Migration Film Festival’s…
The fourth edition of the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) Global Migration Film Festival (GMFF), like all those preceding this…
European Union (EU) Ambassador, Carl Hartzell, has affirmed that the visa-free travel available to citizens of Georgia has demonstrated its…