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(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs advised Filipinos in Ethiopia to immediately prepare for evacuation, amid escalating conflict between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The DFA made the call after it announced an alert level 4 had been raised in the country due to the “continued and intensifying conflict.” The department said the highest alert level was raised over countries where there is a “large-scale internal conflict or a […]
(Eagle News) –Ten more Overseas Filipino Workers repatriated from Libya have arrived, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday, Feb. 12. In a Tweet, Charge d’Affaires Elmer Cato said the group is the first batch to be assisted by the government in returning home this year. “This is also the first joint effort of the (DFA) and International Organization for Migration,” he said. An alert level 4 is currently hoisted over Libya, which is […]
(Eagle News)–The government on Wednesday, Jan. 15, began the mandatory repatriation of Filipinos from Iraq, as tensions between the United States and Iran brewed following a US airstrike that killed a top Iran military official. In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said two groups will be coming from Baghdad and Erbil and will arrive today. The first group from Baghdad composed of seven adults and two minors was supposed to arrive yesterday, the […]
(Eagle News)-The first batch of Filipinos to be repatriated from Iraq will be flown to Manila on Sunday, the Department of National Defense said. DND spokesperson Arsenio Andolong said the 14 Filipinos are so far in the Philippine Embassy in Baghdad and will be brought to Doha, Qatar before they fly back here. Andolong said Special Envoy to the Middle East and concurrent Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu was already in Qatar to implement the repatriation. […]
(Eagle News) — Filipinos in Iran and Lebanon are no longer covered by the government’s mandatory repatriation, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said on Thursday, Jan. 9. In an interview over ANC, Bello said this was after he was informed that the alert level 4 which had been hoisted in Lebanon had been brought down to level 2. He said he was informed yesterday Iran, which had been placed under an alert level 4, was […]
(Eagle News)–The mandatory repatriation applies to Filipinos in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said. Bello made the confirmation as he announced an alert level 4 was already hoisted over the three countries, following the US killing of top Iranian military official Qassam Soleimani. Philippine Overseas Employment Agency administrator Bernard Olalia said the POEA will convene this Friday to issue the resolution declaring the total deployment ban on OFWs to those countries. […]
(Eagle News)-The Philippine embassy in Iraq has raised a Crisis Alert Level 4, the highest among travel advisories, over Iraq amid rising tensions there following the killing of Iran’s top military official Qassam Soleimani from a US airstrike. In a Facebook Live video, Philippine Chargè d’ Affairès Jomar Sadie announced President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a “mandatory repatriation” of Filipinos in the country. “Inatasan na po ng Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang iba’t ibang ahensya ng […]
Overseas Filipino workers in three countries in west Africa protests against the mandatory repatriation when the Department of Foreign Affairs raised to Alert Level 4 the situation in the said region due to the Ebola outbreak.
