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The head the International Organization for Migration (IOM) met with Sudan’s Foreign Minister and discussed migrants issues. (AFP/ File Photo)

March 13th, 2018 - 08:53 GMT

IOM Director and Sudanese FM Meet Over Illegal Migration

IOM Director General William Lacy Swing and Ibrahim Gandur spoke about migration issues as Sudan is a transit country for many illegal migrants mostly from countries in the "Horn of Africa".

A view inside the Congress Centre during the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) on Jan. 23, 2018 in Davos, eastern Switzerland (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

January 25th, 2018 - 08:41 GMT

'An Ongoing Tragedy': UN Urges Leaders to Stop Migrant Deaths

Migrants wait to disembark from the Aquarius rescue Ship run by NGO S.O.S. Mediterranee and Medecins Sans Frontieres in the port of Salerno after a rescue operation in the Mediterranean sea, on May 26 2017. (Carlo Hermann/AFP)

July 5th, 2017 - 05:00 GMT

Over 2,000 Have Died Trying to Reach Europe in 2017

January 18th, 2016 - 12:48 GMT

Germany cracks down on Algerian, Moroccan asylum seekers

December 23rd, 2015 - 02:30 GMT

7,000 Syrian refugees to be relocated from Turkey to Canada

Nearly 2,900 people have died this year trying to cross the Mediterranean. (AFP/File)

September 30th, 2015 - 04:00 GMT

More than 520,000 refugees and migrants crossed Mediterranean in 2015

The closing session of the meeting included a brief presentation on the latest electronic ratification system on labour contracts

June 23rd, 2013 - 05:13 GMT