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Redouble efforts in implementing GCM, protecting migrants’ human rights- UN Secretary General tasks members, partners

Today, December 1, 2020, the United Nations Secretary-General has called on Member States and all partners to redouble efforts in implementing the Global Compact for Safe,...

UNHCR seeks assistance for thousands of Ethiopians fleeing Tigray region

  In the past two weeks alarming reports have come out of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where armed conflict has forced tens of thousands of people to flee into...

Include migrants in vaccine plans, IOM urges at Regional Health Conference

Returnees, health workers join hands to improve psychosocial well-being in Nigeria

COVID-19continues to put a strain on public health systems, as well as on the livelihoods and purchasing power of people around the world. But as the...

JIFORM partners NEKOTECH on African Summit, invites foremost entrepreneur Elumelu

Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM) has extended invitation to the African economist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Mr Tony Elemelu at an African media summit on migration,...

IOM, humanitarian partners roll out new decongestion strategy in Borno IDP camps

  Maiduguri –  Unrelenting violence in North-East Nigeria has prompted new waves of displacement to congested camps in 2020. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has begun...

IOM laments increasing deaths on West Africa route to Canary Islands

The Internatiknal Organization for Migration (IOM) is extremely concerned about the increase in deaths recorded on the West Africa route to the Canary Islands. So far...