Internally Displaced Persons

Internally Displaced Persons

Central African Republic – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, has organized the voluntary transportation of seven Malians, eight Guineans and 34 Central Africans from Bangassou, Central African Republic (CAR).

Bangladesh: Abdul

Abdul (not his real name) When Abdul stopped to pick up a half dead Rohingya child he stumbled upon on the road, while he himself was escaping Mondou, his village in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, he was next expecting what followed.

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Bangladesh: Anjun

Anjun (not her real name) It was late in the afternoon when IOM stumbled upon Anjum in Kutupalong. Despite being soaked to the skin, her dress plastered to her body, the mother of two was still desperately trying to protect her half naked baby by wrapping her drenched scarf around his small body. 

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Vienna – “If we want to understand the important questions of ‘why’, ‘where’ and ‘who’, we need information from people on the move,” said Daunia Pavone, an IOM staffer in Greece.

Erbil – In the wake of the Iraqi Government’s announcement on 5 October that the town of Hawija and its surrounding areas have been retaken.

Goma – The UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has granted USD 875,000 to IOM, the UN Migration Agency to support its response to the emerging displacement crisis in the Tanganyika province in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Addis Ababa – IOM, the UN Migration Agency yesterday (05/10) joined the Ethiopian Somali Regional Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Bureau (DPPB) in partnership with the Durable Solutions Working Group, to endorse the Durable Solutions Strategy for the Somali Region.

Goma – In response to the multiple ongoing humanitarian crises in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), IOM, the UN Migration Agency, is scaling up its displacement assessments and emergency activities in the DRC’s volatile provinces of Kasai and Tanganyika.

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