Symposium / Photo Exhibition / Live Painting - For All the Gold in the World. Dakar - Senegal on December 3, 2019. Click here for more information.
The World Migration Report 2020 is now available here.
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"Na Bissau" is a video clip produced by artist Raul Manarte to raise awareness against child trafficking in Guinea Bissau. You can watch it here.
MigApp offers a central and user-friendly, one-stop-shop application where migrants can log on using their mobile phones. Migrants can then access readily available information and services relevant to their specific migration process as well as directly engage with IOM. Find out more here.
Environment have always been part of migration. With climate change, the complex link between migration, environment and climate change (MECC) is increasingly being recognized in the local, national, regional and global agendas. Read more.
In 2018, the Regional Office for West and Central Africa launched the Youth, Migration and Employment Strategy in West and Central Africa.
Read the bi-annual reintegration as part of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration here.
Read more about the Regional Strategy for West and Central Africa here.
Kojo is currently receiving support to set up an electrical shop through the EU-IOM Joint Initiative. This, he believes, will help him with the necessary funds from savings to further his education and to pursue his career goals.Read his story here.
Nouadhibou – The death toll from Wednesday’s tragic sinking of a fishing boat carrying migrants to the Canary Islands rose to 62 late yesterday with...
Nouadhibou – At least 58 men, women and children are confirmed dead after a vessel carrying an estimated 150 migrants sank as it approached the...
Nouadhibou – At least 58 people are confirmed dead after a vessel carrying migrants sank as it approached the coast of Mauritania today.
Niamey – Between 25 and 29 November, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in cooperation with the national Child Protection Sub...
Artists Work Together on a Show to Sensitize the Youth and other Women.
To support Nigerien youth, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in January 2018 launched the “...
Na Bissau by Raul Manarte. Our thanks to Raul Manarte for making this video available to IOM to contribute to the...
Over three days, radio journalists in Sierra Leone were trained in the Communication for Development (C4D) approach...
“We are not relenting on our efforts but will continue to champion the safe migration campaign. We want as many people as possible to know the risks involved so they will use safer and dignified options,” says Sofiyya, a 19-year-old young Ghanaian senior high school student.
Gambian Returnees Band Together to Fight the “Backway”
“In old times, it was Kumasi, in Ghana. That was our Eldorado. All Malians who went to Ghana brought back a lot of money to their families. People didn’t need to cross the Sahara or risk their life along the migration road to become rich.
Ils ont tenté de rejoindre l’Europe mais leur voyage s’est arrêté en Libye. De retour au Burkina Faso, Seyiba et Aziz ont développé ensemble, avec le soutien de l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) une micro-entreprise florissante dans l’aviculture.
By Collins Yeboah, IOM Ghana
“Welcome bro! Great to have you back! I trust you had a good flight?”
This is how I welcomed Kojo at Kotoka International Airport, in Accra on 27 July 2017. Kojo, 24, had just returned to Ghana from Libya, on a charter flight organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). He looked exhausted, lost. But there was also a sparkle of relief in his eyes.
Cela fait quatre ans que l’insurrection de Boko Haram a frappé la région de Diffa au Niger, ayant entrainé le déplacement de plus de 249,000[1] personnes.
L’objectif de cet atelier était de réunir tous les services de l’Etat et les acteurs non étatiques qui ont un rôle à jouer dans la gestion des crises afin de présenter les recommandations et les expériences des précédentes simulations réalisées par l’OIM et également de préparer la nouvelle simulation bilatérale
Depuis le début du conflit dans le nord du Mali en 2012 et l’afflux des réfugiés, l’OIM, l'organisme des Nations Unies chargé de la migration, le HCR, les ONGs locales ainsi que le gouvernement mauritanien, travaillent ensemble au sein du camp, afin de subvenir aux besoins des réfugiés.
To improve migrant protection, voluntary return and reintegration along the Central Mediterranean route in Africa, the European Union (EU), through the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF), and with contributions from Germany (€48 million) and Italy (€22 million) launched with the UN Migration Agency (IOM) in 2016 the Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration in Africa.
