"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.
Find out more about the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration
Read more about the Regional Strategy for West and Central Africa here.
Benin City - From 8-10 April, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) organized a workshop in Benin City, Edo State, to build the capacity...
Nouakchott – The first-ever reggae concert organized in Mauritania was held on 13 April in the capital city, Nouakchott where 13 musicians and...
Dakar – The second round of reintegration counselling sessions for migrant returnees was organized on Monday (15/04) by the International...
Dakar – From 10 to 13 April 2019, a civil society capacity-building workshop on mixed migration, international recruitment, and...
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...
Migrant returnees in Guinea set up an agricultural project growing pineapples and watermelons. They partnered with...
Take a look at this reintegration project in Sierra Leone for migrants returning from Niger and local community...
IOM Supports a Cleaning Campaign in the Port City
Al Hudaydah’s littered streets are a constant reminder of fighting.
By Collins Yeboah, IOM Ghana
“Welcome bro! Great to have you back! I trust...
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...
Kobus Botha has been growing mangos on his plantation in northern Mozambique for 11 years.
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.
Yaoundé – Le 8 juin 2018, l’OIM, l’agence de Nations Unies pour les Migrations, la Délégation de l’Union européenne au Cameroun et le Ministre de la Jeunesse et de l’Education Civique, ont remis à 22 Camerounais revenus de Libye, du Niger et du Maroc, le matériel nécessaire pour commencer leurs activités de réintégration et de réinsertion socio-économique.