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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and religious leaders have agreed to jointly educate Ugandans about safe migration. This decision resulted from a three-day engagement on safe migration between the IOM and the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU). In search of better opportunities, many Ugandans …

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA | Xinhua | More than 3.45 million people are displaced in Ethiopia, with more than half of them displaced due to conflict, according to a new report of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a UN agency. The IOM, through its latest Ethiopia National Displacement Report released …

TRIPOLI | Xinhua | The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Saturday that 61 migrants have drowned at sea off the coast of the western Libyan city of Zuwara, some 120 km west of the capital Tripoli, while trying to reach Europe. IOM tweeted late Saturday that the migrants, …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua |  The number of people entering Ethiopia from Sudan has surpassed 64,000, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday. The IOM, a UN migration agency, in its latest situation update issued Wednesday, said the ongoing armed conflict in Sudan has forced hundreds of thousands …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | The number of people arriving in Ethiopia fleeing from armed conflict in Sudan has surpassed 31,000, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has disclosed. The UN migration agency, in its latest situation update issued Friday, said the armed conflict in Sudan is forcing hundreds of thousands of …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | African countries should enact policy and legislative instruments that facilitate seamless cross-border movement of the skilled labor force in order to realize economic growth, stability and cohesion, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) officials said Thursday. Mohammed Abdiker, the director of the IOM’s Regional Office for East …

Tripoli, Libya | Xinhua | The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Thursday said 112 illegal migrants were sent from Libya to their country of origin. “Today 112 migrants were able to return their country of origin through the European Union funded Joint Initiative,” the UN agency said in a statement. “The …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said more than 100,000 Ethiopian migrants have returned from abroad during the first ten months of 2022. Between January and October 2022, IOM registered over 100,000 returning migrants to Ethiopia, with the majority — more than 71,000 — coming …

IOM report says more women than men in East Africa leave home Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | One in two people who left their home countries in the East and Horn of Africa last year was a woman or girl according to a new report published Sept.8 by the …

Kigali, Rwanda | THE INDEPENDENT | The East African Community (EAC) is consulting widely on ways of streamlining migration in the region to make it more beneficial to the development of the member countries. The ministers in charge of EAC, internal and labour, directorates of immigration from the region, as …