The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has distributed equipment and raw materials to 34 small manufacturing companies in northern Jawzjan province. Maulvi Niaz Mohammad Tawab, the provincial commerce and industry director, during the distribution ceremony, told Pajhwok Afghan…
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has sought more than $589 million to respond to the urgent humanitarian and protection needs of people in Afghanistan and six neighbouring countries. While launching the appeal in Geneva on Tuesday, officials…
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) distributed 2.3 million afghanis in cash and winter clothes to 111 displaced families in northwestern Samangan province. Abdul Qudus, an official of Disaster Management Department of Samangan, told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
Afghanistan could face drought and famine this year, with 17 million people facing risk of hunger, warns the International Organization for Migration (IOM). An emergency response officer with IOM in Afghanistan said reduced levels of snowfall and rain…
KABUL have left their homes this year due to fighting with many of these people remained displaced across the country, as conflict and poverty prevent them from returning to their areas of origin, United Nations Office for the Coordination of…
KABUL (IOM) said on Friday. In its report released on Friday, the IOM said since January this year, 124,696 Afghan refugees voluntarily returned from Iran, but another 158,771 refugees were forcibly repatriated. It said so far this year 14,000 Afghan…
KABUL (IOM). A Displacement-Tracking Matrix report on Tuesday said the organisation had covered 11,443 communities in 390 districts of all 34 provinces of the country. The Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) is a system that collects information on the movements and…
KABUL since 2001 to over eight million. IOM said on Thursday reintegration in Afghan society was difficult for returnees, with the country still mired in conflict and faced with high levels of internal displacement, limited services and few jobs. The…
KABUL (IOM) on Tuesday. Addressing a gathering on the International Migrants Day (IMD) the CEO said “We are also grateful to the governments of Iran and Pakistan for providing needful facilities for Afghan returning migrants in their countries”. The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) and…
KABUL. With funding from the European Commission's Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO), the €18 million project will target communities in Kabul, Herat, Nangarhar, Balkh, Kandahar, Baghlan, Uruzgan and Laghman provinces. The project will help foster sustainable reintegration…
KABUL to better understand population movements and needs. The system is being put in place in response to a dramatic increase of Afghans returning home from neighbouring countries, as well as record levels of internal displacement. In a statement on…
