"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.
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.
Maiduguri – Zaynab stands next to the remnants of her home she used to share with her six children before it was destroyed by early season rainstorms...
Zinder – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) officially handed over last Friday (17 May) the Centre for the Prevention, Promotion and...
Makeni City – “Our collaborative efforts in combating the crime is indispensable and the systematic approach in mitigating crimes of this nature...
Tillabéry – The International Organization for Migration is launching an emergency response project in the Tillabéry region in Niger with funding...
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...
This week (6-12 May) is United Nations Global Road Safety Week, dedicated to raising awareness worldwide about road safety.
Beira, Mozambique — Munhava Matope here on the outskirts of Beira, Mozambique’s second largest city, is what is often described by outsiders as a...
Tuesday marked Children’s Day in Turkey, a national holiday celebrated widely throughout the country. Officially recognized as “National...
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...
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.
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.