Police in Mozambique have thwarted an attempt to traffic 42 illegal immigrants from Malawi in a container lorry heading to South Africa. BBC says the immigrants had been travelling in the lorry for three days before they were intercepted in the capital of Gaza province, Xai-Xai. Police spokesperson Carlos Macuacua said the detained migrants told […]
Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services has deported 69 illegal immigrants from the country. The illegal immigrants are from Indian, Pakistan, Tanzania and Rwanda within a space of three months for being found working and conducting businesses in the country illegally. Department’s Deputy Spokesperson Wellington Chiponde disclosed this Thursday in Blantyre. He said the Department […]
Immigration officials in Lilongwe have arrested nine people for illegal stay in the country and for fleeing from Dzaleka Refugee camp in Lilongwe. Immigration Department spokesperson in central region Eric Banda said the illegal immigrants were picked from Kawale, Mchesi, Biwi and City Centre among other areas. “Two of them were arrested for staying in […]
Immigration authorities say they have deported over 600 illegal immigrants this year alone as the number of Malawian illegal immigrants in other countries has dwindled drastically. Deputy spokesperson for the Immigration department Wellington Chiponde said the government will work to flash out all illegal immigrants, saying some of them pose a security threat to the […]
A Magistrate court in Mwanza has ordered an immediate deportation of a Ghanaian and Congolese for illegal entry into Malawi and overstay in the country. Immigration Department spokesperson for Mwanza border Pascal Zulu said the Ghanaian was illegally staying in country and lied to people that he was a pastor in Chilobwe, Blantyre. “We discovered […]
Member of Parliament from Rumphi East, Kamlepo Kalua has said in Parliament that some Indians , Chinese and Nigerians are exploiting the Malawi youth, especial girls who are used as drug traffickers. Kalua said foreigners have now made Malawi their heaven such that they enter the country illegally and do “dirty business”. He said: “ […]
The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in conjunction with the Malawi Police Service arrested 20 people from Pakistan and their Pakistani agents in the cpuntry amidst reports of systemic corruption in Malawi’s immigration department, involving the alleged issuing of fraudulent travel documents, work permits and citizenship rights to non-nationals in return for backhanders. In a brief […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has appealed to chiefs in Chitipa to watch out for and report any foreign national who enters the country illegally from Zambia and Tanzania. The warning comes ahead of the forthcoming Phase Seven of voter registration in the district. Speaking during the meeting with chiefs in Traditional Authority (T/A)Mwaulambya on […]
Lilongwe Magistrate Court Thursday sentenced a 42 year old man identified as Francis Kamara of Kenya to six months Imprisonment with Hard Labour for illegally entering Malawi which is contrary to Section 36, Subsection 1 of the Immigration Act. Police Prosecutor Cecelia Zanganga told the court that the accused committed the crime on February 15, […]
Malawi Police in northern border district of Karonga has arrested eight Ethiopians in Chirambiro Hills for allegedly entering into the country without proper travelling documents. Confirming the arrest of the suspects, Karonga Police Spokesperson, Enock Livason said the enforcers arrested the eight Ethiopians following a tip-off from members of the general public. “We were informed […]
Hudder Moyo, head of criminal investigations department (CID) in the northern region district of Rumphi, has been implicated in a syndicate in which he demands K300 000 per assignment to aid illegal immigrants into the country. Rumphi is strategically positioned because it has Nyika Plateau on its west and Lake Malawi on its east. A […]
Malawi Police in Rumphi have arrested a 25-year-old Ethiopian national Salam Ashoro for entering Malawi illegally. Rumphi police spokesperson Victor Khamisi said Ashoro was arrested at Chinyolo in Rumphi along Karonga-Mzuzu road after police received information that two vehicles coming from Karonga direction heading towards Mzuzu had carried illegal immigrants. “The two Toyota Sienta vehicles registration numbers […]
A total of 150 Malawian citizens who were staying in South Africa without proper documents have been deported back to Malawi. Immigration spokesperson at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe, Martin Ngongolo , said the deportees – 148 men and two women – arrived in the country on Monday. “We have currently received 148 Malawians that were deported from South […]
About 300 Malawian citizens have been deported by South Africa for living in the country without proper documents days after Zimbabwe deported 72 Malawians for being illegal immigrants as Centre for Development of the People (Cedep) executive director Gift Trapence has called for curbing high levels of unemployment in the country which he said was […]
Rumphi First Grade Magistrate Court has ordered the deportation of 22 illegal immigrants believed to be Ethiopian nationals who were arrested at Ntchenachena Trading Centre in the district for entering into the country without relevant travel documents. Magistrate Cuthbert Phiri said he had recommended the repatriation of the aliens back to their home country saying […]
The Lilongwe Magistrate Court has ordered the deportation of an Indian national Mohammad Torif Patel and Bangladesh national Abdul Aziz after they were caught trying to sneak into the country illegally. The court on Monday found Patel guilty of aiding and abetting illegal entry of Aziz contrary to Section 36 (1) of the Malawi’s Immigration Act. Aziz was […]
In a bid to crack down illegal immigrants, Malawi Immigration Department conducted a sweeping exercise in the central region border district of Mchinji where they arrested three Rwandese and two Burundians who relocated from Dzaleka refugee camp and are operating their businesses in Mchinji. According to the Immigration Public Relations Officer for Mchinji, Madalitso Banda, […]
The Immigration Department has bursted on 75 Ethiopians and one Burundian for illegal entry and five Malawian drivers for aiding them into the country. Confirming the arrest in an interview Friday, Northern Region Immigration Public Relations Officer Blackwell Lungu bemoaned why some Malawians are still aiding illegal immigrants into the country despite several awareness campaigns […]