GENEVA, Switzerland, December 2, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On 1st December, IOM Tanzania, in collaboration with the government, launched a voluntary migrant registration operation in Kigoma, Western Tanzania. The registration, which will initially last three weeks, is aimed at irregular Burundian, Rwandan and Ugandan migrants, who wish to... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, December 2, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM has repatriated 253 Ethiopian irregular migrants released from detention in Tanzania. The operation, in close collaboration with the Tanzanian Immigration Department and the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was funded by the Government of Japan. The migrants, who were... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, December 2, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM, in collaboration with the US State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, has launched a 2-year programme to help the Congolese National Police (CNP) to protect the population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)... Read more

MONROVIA, Liberia, December 2, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The #ISurvivedEbola campaign has kicked off with the release of the first in a series of videos that feature Ebola survivors from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea sharing their stories and perspectives with the world. The multimedia campaign is the... Read more

WASHINGTON, December 2, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC December 1, 2014 Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield is traveling to Monrovia, Liberia December 2-5 as part of a U.S. delegation reviewing ongoing Ebola response efforts in the country.... Read more

BAMAKO, Mali, December 2, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the first and second reviews of Mali’s performance under an economic program supported by a three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement. The Board’s decision enables the immediate disbursement of... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, December 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau, will visit Italy from 2 to 5 December 2014 as a follow-up to his 2012 year-long study on the management of the external borders of the European Union, which... Read more

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, December 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone (http://health.gov.sl), Dr Brima Kargbo, will host an online press conference on Wednesday, December 3rd 2014 at 15 GMT. During the online press conference, the Chief... Read more

OSLO, Norway, December 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — ‘I am deeply concerned about developments in Nigeria. The terrorist attacks on civilian targets in recent days are shocking and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms,’ said Minister of Foreign Affairs Børge Brende. The death toll following the... Read more