Amman (Fides Service) - Over the past week the International Organisation for Migration IOM has assisted 559 third country nationals TCNs who had fled from Iraq into Jordan. Some 361 of them, including 305 Sudanese, 39 Egyptians, 10 Chadians, 1Yemeni, 1 Somali and 4 South Africans, have returned home with IOM assistance.
The IOM, founded in the 1950s with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, today counts 82 member states and 33 observer states including the Holy See and the Sovereign Military Hospitaler Order of Malta. LM (Fides Service 27/3/2003 EM lines 12 Words: 106)