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IOM Council chair visits Zimbabwe and South Africa
The Chair of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Council and Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Katharina Stasch, has visited Zimbabwe and...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 09:42hrs | 968 | by Stephen Jakes
Anxious Zimbabwean migrants, smugglers watch South Africa's election
A Toyota Hilux with South African plates parks on the roadside in Nkwana village in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland South province and honks its horn. An elderly woman makes her way to the car where t...Published: 19 May 2024 at 12:49hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean mercenaries fighting in Ukraine
FIVE Zimbabwean mercenaries are fighting for Ukraine, according to latest data released by the Russia Defence ministry, with one said to have since been killed on the battle field.But the figu...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:56hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
IOM launches first Global appeal for US$7.9billion
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has launched its first ever Global Annual Appeal for 2024, calling for USD 7.9 billion to support its operations and help create a system that realiz...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 15:19hrs | 18 | by Stephen Jakes
Record-breaking global migration - Unprecedented displacement spurs demand for people-focused solutions
On 14 June, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued his flagship annual report, Global Trends: Forced Displacement 2022. It states that by the end of 2022, the number of people displaced ...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 13:14hrs | 35 | by Lansana Gberie
Zimbabwean youths flee in droves
According to a recent report, Zimbabwean youths constitute the largest group of people leaving the country in significant numbers following the general elections on August 23. Many of them are choosin...Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 18:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
50 Malawi nationals languish in Zimbabwe prisons
Approximately 50 Malawian nationals have been held in Zimbabwean prisons for over three months due to a lack of funds for their repatriation. Most of these individuals were arrested while attempting t...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe clamps down on illegal recruitment
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the Government is strengthening inter-agency cooperation to deal with unscrupulous recruitment agencies using unethical means to recruit desperate job seekers and ultimate...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurse aide certificate rescues thousands from Zimbabwe poverty
THOUSANDS of Zimbabweans, mostly healthcare workers, are leaving Zimbabwe for the United Kingdom in search of greener pastures at a time many locals are struggling to cope with the country's relentles...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 19:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is ripe for investment - it just needs to be done the right way
The massive surge in diaspora remittances to Zimbabwe - up to $1.4 billion last year - makes for an interesting case study of an economy significantly different from others. Not many countries can loo...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 13:01hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Western hegemony is nearing its end!
This article is reproduced from the public account: Guo Rong (ID: xuu5336)Recently, at an internal meeting, a certain President made a general analysis of the current international situation. ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by President
Chamisa's MDC blames Mnangagwa anti-poor policies for Zimbabweans migration to SA
THE MDC Alliance has blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-poor policies for fuelling the Zimbabwe to South Africa migration crisis as desperate citizens continue crossing the border to that coun...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 09:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ILO, SAMM condusts virtual media training for SADC journalists
The International Labour Organization (ILO) with the support of the Southern Africa Migration Management Project (SAMM) has organised the virtual media training programme for the journalists in Southe...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 09:54hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
50 Zimbabweans deported from UK
THE British government is deporting around 50 Zimbabwean nationals who have been released from detention after having completed serving jail terms for various offenses.The Foreign Affairs and ...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff writer
Over 200,000 Zimbabwe migrant workers return after Covid-19 job losses
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned of a "deeper crisis" on Tuesday after more than 200,000 Zimbabweans working in other countries were forced to return home by the Covid-19 pand...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean diaspora ready to invest back home
Zimbabweans working and living outside their country are willing to invest back home and boost the economy, as long as there is a good environment according to the International Organization for Migra...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean refugees return from Botswana
FORTY-EIGHT Zimbabweans who were refugees in Botswana returned home yesterday following a joint initiative by Government, Botswana as well as the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Most of...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Eloise projected to bring large amounts of rain onto Beitbridge
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has revealed that a new potential Tropical...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 15:44hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
2018 New Year Message: African Union
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, January 1, 2018/ -- 2017 has been a particularly eventful year, with the assumption of duty of a new Commission. I have had the privilege of serving with a diverse group of indi...Published: 01 Jan 2018 at 16:23hrs | | by APO
UK cracks down on modern slavery in Nigeria
LONDON - The UK is cracking down on the barbaric crime of modern slavery, International Development Secretary Priti Patel announced from Nigeria today, as she called for a world free from this abhorre...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 07:10hrs | 8 | by APO
UN Africa forum launches high-level migration panel to help create political momentum for change
WASHINGTON DC - Amid growing concern for the safety of migrants, particularly in Africa, as they undertake extreme risks in hopes of a better future or to escape violence and persecution, a high-level...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 07:38hrs | | by APO
No place like home - Africa's skilled labour returns
Mariam Koné left Canada five years ago to start a business consulting firm in Bamako, the capital of Mali. As her client base grew steadily, earnings from her company, Koné Conseil...Published: 07 Aug 2013 at 18:50hrs | 35 | by Aissata Haidara
Zimbabweans deported from South Africa struggle at home
Maxwell Zimbume, 37, left his job at a beverage company in Harare, at the height of the country's economic crisis in late 2008. His salary was not being paid regularly and had become almost worth...Published: 09 Jun 2013 at 14:14hrs | | by IRIN
SA deportations rob Zimbabwe of vulnerable remittances
HARARE - Thousands of Zimbabwean households are feeling the effects of lost remittances from family members forcibly returned from neighbouring South Africa since that country resumed deportations o...Published: 21 Mar 2012 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Diaspora Vote Campaign
The entire Zimbabwe Diaspora community is anxious to know whether the Electoral Amendment Bill that is currently being debated in the Zimbabwean parliament will provide for the Diaspora to vote in the...Published: 02 Oct 2011 at 22:29hrs | | by ZDVC Committee
In Zimbabwe, a hungry man is a docile man, not an angry man
As their country's economic decline continues to gather speed, Zimbabweans of all walks of life increasingly adopted creative coping mechanisms, captured succinctly in the phrase "make a plan" that is...Published: 19 Sep 2011 at 12:26hrs | 1 | by Dell
CIA chief says Gadhafi alive after hit on house
TRIPOLI, Libya – The CIA chief says he believes Moammar Gadhafi is still alive, despite a NATO airstrike that reduced much of the Libyan leader's family compound to rubble.Ga...Published: 04 May 2011 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by AP
No Zimbabwean migrants Deportations until March
Undocumented Zimbabwean migrants were given until 31 December 2010 to regularize their stay in South Africa, but this has been extended to 31 March, and problems with issuing passports by the Zimbabwe...Published: 09 Jan 2011 at 01:31hrs | 1 | by Byo24News
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