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Migration
News: IOM, partners provide relief to people affected by the crisis in northern Ethiopia
Addis Abeba, December 18/2020 – Internally displaced persons (IDPs) and conflict-affected communities are in dire need of humanitarian and recovery assistance after weeks of conflict in the northern Ethiopian regional state of Tigray. The scale-up of relief operations in Amhara follows the agreement for unimpeded humanitarian access that was reached …
Feature: Weekend of contrasting realities in Eritrea as Martyrs’ Day coincides with World Refugee Day
By Zecharias Zelalem @ZekuZelalem Addis Abeba, June 26/2020 – Twenty-three year old Simon left his native Eritrea seven years ago, crossing the border into neighboring Ethiopia where he still resides. He uses remittances from relatives in Canada to rent a two room apartment in Addis Abeba’s Lafto district, which he …
News: IOM assisting Ethiopia as country grapples with more than 9,400 returnee migrants in quarantine facilities
Addis Abeba, April 28/2020 – Ethiopia continues to receive thousands of migrants returned from countries across the region and the Middle East, in response to the COVID-19 global health pandemic. The International Organization for Migration (IOM), is assisting more than 9,400 migrants in the country’s quarantine facilities. Migrants have been …
