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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 27

    Meet Valentine, a single father of an 8 month old baby boy. When his son's mother died during childbirth in Libya, he returned from Libya last year with the new born baby. Now, he has a shop selling wholesale foodstuff at Ikotun Egbe in Lagos State under the

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    16 hours ago

    🔴 BREAKING Swing appealed to the Libyan authorities to stop detaining migrants after they have been intercepted by the Coast Guard:

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  3. Jul 5

    Working Group on Migration in Discusses Progress of EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration

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  4. Retweeted
    Jul 4

    Each year millions of people are displaced within the borders of their own countries by: • conflict • violence • disasters • natural hazards • climate change A new VR exhibition at showcases their stories:

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  5. Jul 4

    To date, 3,000 shelters have been built by across four camps in Pulka, 700 funded by the -managed Nigeria Humanitarian Fund are under construction and expected to be allocated in the coming weeks, and another 500 are in the pipeline.

    Pulka (Borno) is a particularly challenging town for humanitarian operations. But against all odds & thanks to creative determination, the work goes on to alleviate the suffering of thousands of conflict-affected women, children & men >
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  7. Jul 4

    What's it like living in displacement in North-East Nigeria? a virtual reality experience kicks off this week at the UN in Geneva, bringing people closer to the stories of IDPs. 👇👇👇

    . Visit Hannatu’s home to hear her story of displacement and why she’s holding on to one special t-shirt – all in virtual reality! Inaugural exhibit opens in UN HQ in Geneva this week.
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  8. Jul 3

    Since 2016, has constructed +3000 shelters to support displaced populations in Pulka. We're currently constructing 700 additional shelters to better assist displaced populations in transit and reception sites. Visit to learn more.

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    Jul 3

    Displaced families pouring in daily in Pulka, Borno. About 5K ppl staying in communal shelters in transit site & newly-built reception centre. working round clock to build new shelters: 700 underway in Camp C funded by -run () 🛠️

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  10. Retweeted
    Jul 3

    Read about mobility tracking in Lake Chad, the migration-water connections and many more in the IOM Environmental Migration Newsletter - June 2018

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  11. Jul 2

    How are we helping mainstream mental health and support in humanitarian assistance? From 25-27/06, IOM trained 28 inter-agency participants in , Borno State to better understand the unique mental health and psychosocial needs of displaced populations.

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  12. Retweeted
    Jun 29

    BREAKING: António Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira Vitorino elected as new Director General of IOM.

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    Jun 29

    With , we support a common approach and call for a predictable and responsible disembarkation mechanism. Read our joint proposal to the EU Summit which concluded this morning ➡️

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  14. Jun 29

    The IOM Regional Office in Nairobi and the African Union Commission are organizing a symposium on "Fostering Labour Mobility within and from Africa”. It is scheduled to hold in Nairobi from 10-12 July. Plan to attend.

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  15. Retweeted
    Jun 28

    Arrivals by sea to EU: 2014: 247.263 2015: 1.070.625 2016: 360.329 2017: 172.362 2018 (until 24/06): 42.845 Total EU population: 500 million. This is not a migration crisis, rather a humanitarian one: more than 16.000 migrants have died or gone missing at sea since 2014.

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  16. Retweeted
    Jun 27

    At the second quarterly coordination meeting of the TWGon migration in Nigeria. The Director R&M, Lawal Hamidu represented . With

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    Jun 27

    🔴BREAKING and appeal for region-wide action by EU countries over Mediterranean tragedies. ▶️New collaborative approach is needed to make disembarkation of people rescued at sea more predictable and manageable. Read here:

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  18. Jun 27

    This week, IOM has trained over 20 vulnerable migrants, mostly female who returned from Niger on how to run sustainable businesses. This training is under the 'Facilitating Sustainable Reintegration through Business Support' funded by the Swiss government.

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  19. Jun 18

    Edo State Commissioner for Youth and Special Duty, Hon. Micah Amaokhai, last week, commending IOM for its work in training returning in Benin on skills for business. Most migrants IOM assisted to Nigeria from Libya since April 2017, are btw 15-35 yrs.

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  20. Jun 16

    'Three gbosas for IOM!' - Returning at the Business Skills training in Benin giving IOM three hearty cheers. Richard Danziger, IOM WCA Regional Director restates IOMs commitment to properly reintegrate returning migrants in State and all over the region

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