Planting Seeds for a Safer Future
IOM is planting vetiver grass all over the Rohingya refugee camp to mitigate the risk of landslides.
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Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 61,517 in 2018; Deaths Reach 1,524
IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 61,517 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2018 through 12 August. This compares with 118,436 arrivals across the region through the same period last year, and 265,640 in 2016. Read more
IOM Voluntary Humanitarian Returns Continue in Libya as Number of Detained Migrants Soars
Between January and July 2018, IOM, the UN Migration Agency, safely returned 10,950 stranded migrants from Libya through its Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) Programme as the number of detainees in the country rose alarmingly. Read more
IOM Medical Consultations Hit 500,000 as Demand for Healthcare Spikes in Waterlogged Rohingya Refugee Camps
UN Migration Agency medical staff in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, have now carried out over half a million consultations since the Rohingya refugee crisis began nearly a year ago, as monsoon conditions sparked the busiest week of the year for doctors and nurses working in the camps. Read more
IOM Launches USD 22.2M Appeal for Gedeo, West Guji Displacement Crisis in Ethiopia
Today (24/07), IOM the UN Migration Agency launched an appeal for USD 22,200,000 to respond to the internal displacement crisis in Ethiopia’s Gedeo (SNNPR region) and West Guji (Oromia region) zones. Since April 2018, some 970,000 people have fled their homes due to fighting between communities along the border of the two regions; the vast majority were displaced in June alone. Read more | Download Appeal
IOM Global Migration Film Festival Empowers Women Victims of Human Trafficking in Madagascar
A group of Malagasy women who were victims of human trafficking overcame their fear of speaking out and last week spent four days directing and filming their own stories of forced marriage and domestic slavery for a counter-trafficking documentary. Read more
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From the Transit Centre to the Football Field: The Migrant Footballers of Agadez
Under IOM’s community stabilization project COSINN, the teams from the Nassara AC in Agadez get to play regularly with other teams from Agadez, but also with the migrants from the centre. Watch here
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Stopping Ebola in its Tracks with Point of Entry Screening
The mighty Congo River both connects Kinshasa with Equateur Province where an Ebola epidemic began in May 2018 and separates the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Congo-Brazzaville, hidden in the haze on the other bank.
Dispatch from Ghardaïa: Meeting Bintu at the ‘Door to the Desert’
The buses left Algiers almost a day ago. Although the buses are comfortable, it has been a long day on the road for everyone.
End of Ebola Epidemic in DR Congo “a Collective Victory for us all”
Democratic Republic of the Congo – The end of the ninth Ebola virus epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), announced on 24 July
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In Jordan’s Azraq Camp where over 45,000 Syrian refugees are seeking shelter from the conflict across the border, 14-year-old Abdallah is finishing the 8th grade at a school run by the Ministry of Education.
Nature is essential to Madagascar’s identity. Mention the country and it will undoubtedly evoke discussions about its wildlife, natural richness or unique flora.
Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. New infections of TB occur in about 1 per cent of the global population every year.