#voluntary return program

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Cameroon launches new partnership with the IOM to better support returning migrants

Every year, migrants choose to return to Cameroon through the IOM voluntary return program, after months of suffering on migratory routes. T

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Greece reactivates voluntary return program for migrants

Greece's program for the voluntary return of migrants to their country of origin has been reactivated by the government's migration ministry. The scheme had been suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to the Greek migration minister, the first flights are expected "in the coming weeks."

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UN voluntary return programs help thousands of migrants leave Libya in 2018

More than 16,000 migrants were returned home from Libya in 2018 under a voluntary return program run by the UN's migration agency, the IOM. Many of them had tried - and failed - to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.