GENEVA, Switzerland, November 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Uganda’s borders are porous and the country is vulnerable to illegal cross border activities, including human trafficking and migrant smuggling. Between 2008 and 2013, 72 Ugandans identified as victims of trafficking abroad were helped to return home by IOM. In... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Some 200 households (1,200 people) from communities displaced by communal conflict in Kenya’s Moyale town are set to benefit from new shelters built by IOM. Inter-communal fighting over resources and political differences – which lasted from August 2013 to January... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Seychelles this week launched a media campaign to combat human trafficking as part of a project supported by the government and funded by the IOM Development Fund. The campaign aims to help the general public and local NGOs better... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) has led to widespread availability of grenades and other explosives in the capital, Bangui. Unexploded ordnance (UXO) has also been found throughout the city, often by citizens supporting clean-ups in their neighbourhoods.... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On Tuesday (25/11), 650 Chadian and Malian migrants stranded in Cameroon returned home with IOM’s help. When the fighting broke out in the Central African Republic (CAR) in December last year, thousands of migrants fled to neighbouring Cameroon to find... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM’s team providing assistance to migrants arriving in Europe by sea from North Africa and the Middle East recorded another 18 migrants reported missing, and presumed dead this week. The reports came from fellow passengers rescued by commercial and military... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Key Messages • Sexual transmission of Ebola virus disease has not been documented • In four studies that investigated persistence of Ebola virus in seminal fluid from convalescent patients (a total of 43 patients), three men who had recovered from... Read more

BERN, Switzerland, November 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The summit being held in Dakar by the International Organisation of La Francophonie (IOF) has as its theme: “Women and youth in French-speaking countries: Vectors of peace, agents of development”. These are priority action areas for Switzerland, particularly in Africa.... Read more

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, November 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The government of United Republic of Tanzania has never had any plan to evict the Maasai people from their ancestral land as falsely reported by the media in recent days. The information circulated through the media outlets globally... Read more