Maureen Achieng, Chief of Mission of to Ethiopia and Representative to the African Union and to UNECA, says a new narrative on migration in Africa is emerging. It challenges and debunks commonly held perceptions and myths about African migration and African migrants, revealing that most people are not crossing seas and oceans to migrate, but rather crossing land borders in their quest for greener pastures. In fact, of people who do cross seas and oceans from African countries to reach other destinations do so through regular channels. According to the first-ever 鈥,鈥 these people are mostly business travelers and students, taking planes and passing through airports and official land borders.
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Each year, thousands of residents get displaced due to flash floods in Bor, South Sudan. Last year a long embankment constructed to contain the flow of water, collapsed after continued flooding. and partners conducted a detailed technical assessment and identified sections of the dike that were susceptible to further damage. Based on its findings, IOM began repair and maintenance work in the dike by procuring sandbags, wooden posts and bamboo poles to strengthen exposed sections. Youth from the community voluntarily participated in repair works for over a month.
Well over 2,500 migrants and refugees have been forced to sleep rough in Bosnia-Herzegovina聽for several weeks聽鈥 on the European Union鈥檚 doorstep聽鈥撀燿espite the fact that聽suitable sheltered accommodation is available.聽
Migrants often face lack of clear, accessible information that allows them to make informed decisions, so word-of-mouth myths and prejudices about access to status regularization prevail. 鈥淢any migrants are facing the consequences of decisions they made, which were informed by misinformation spreading on social media,鈥 said Leonard Doyle, head of IOM Communications. Two new IOM campaigns are attempting to counter that. 鈥溾 was presented online in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador on 22 October, two days after the virtual launch of 鈥," a campaign in Costa Rica.
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