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Geneva/ Port Sudan, 25 July 2025 – As conflict persists across much of Sudan, pockets of relative safety have emerged and to date over a million internally displaced Sudanese have been making their ...
IOM’s 2024 Annual Report highlights global efforts to save lives, drive solutions to displacement, and strengthen pathways for regular migration.
Michele Klein Solomon is Director of the Migration Policy and Research Department at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), where she has been instrumental in building the Organization’s ...
Bamako – Gold is Mali’s top export, accounting for at least 60 per cent of the country’s total exports in 2017 and making Mali the third gold exporter in Africa, just after South Africa and Ghana.
MAPUTO - The bodies of 64 men were discovered asphyxiated in a sealed shipping container on the back of a truck at a checkpoint in Tete, Mozambique on Tuesday morning. Fourteen others rescued when ...
Berlin – Despite repeated calls for concrete action to reduce tragic loss of life during migration journeys worldwide every year, the death toll in 2021 has surpassed 4,470 after dozens were ...
Brussels – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcome the commitments made by donors today, amounting to USD 2.79 billion, including USD 653 million ...
Joint UNHCR-IOM Statement Panama City/San José – More people, including a growing number of Venezuelans, are resorting to perilous crossings through the jungles of the Darien Gap in search of safety ...
Moscow/Nur Sultan – The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on Central Asia and the Russian Federation, where migration influences every aspect of daily life. Thousands of migrants are ...
Ottawa – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcome the pledges made today, amounting to USD 1.5 billion, including USD 954 million in grants, during ...
Ghana - IOM has welcomed the launch of a newly created Diaspora Affairs Bureau within Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration.
Italy - IOM reports an estimated 204,311 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2016 through 30 May, arriving in Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Spain. After a surge in reported shipwrecks and other ...