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In Kenya, soccer tops the list attracting a massive following, especially among young people.

In Nairobi, the set-up of the post-graduate diploma on migration studies takes concrete shape.

“Many youth are idle and their greatest desire is to have jobs or a source of livelihood but unemployment is a major challenge.

“If I hadn’t joined a youth group, I myself may have joined al-Shabaab,” explained Noor Dahir, the charismatic Director of a Lamu Island-based youth group Kiunga Youth Bunge Initiative.

IOM, the UN Migration Agency, announced on 13/03 that it has assisted 10,171 migrants to return home safely from Libya with support from the European Union, African Union, and the Libyan Government since the scale up of Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) from the country started on 28 November last...

Why drives rural to urban migration? How attractive are secondary cities compared to capitals? Why are people moving? Do they intend to move further? What are the social-political-economic impacts of their arrival in secondary cities?These are the questions to which the research on rural to urban...

“In our group, we started with personal savings where each member contributes Ksh40 per week totalling Ksh160 per month.

The European Union is adopting today three new programmes worth over €150 million under the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, directly following up on the commitments made by the Joint African Union – European Union – United Nations Task Force to address the migrant situation in Libya...