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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 …
News: IOM mobilizes local leaders to contain #COVID19 in Ethiopia
Addis Abeba, April 24/2020 – In the wake of the COVID-19 induced state of emergency in Ethiopia, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is mobilizing its network of local community leaders to help with awareness and prevention activities designed to stop the spread of the disease. The so-called ‘community conversation …
News Alert: 64 migrants suspected to be Ethiopians found dead in container in Mozambique
Addis Abeba, March 24/2020 – More than 60 suspected undocumented migrants from Ethiopia were found dead on Tuesday in a cargo container in Mozambique’s northwest Tete province, AFP reported citing a hospital official. “A truck transporting illegal immigrants from Malawi, suspected to be Ethiopians, was stopped at the Mussacana weight …