Malawi Police in Karonga district on Monday night stopped a vehicle and led off a group of 26 Ethiopian national, believed to have smuggled themselves into the country. Karonga police deputy spokesperson George Mlewa confimed they swooped on the vehicle, presumably following a tip-off.. According to him, the suspects were coming from Chitipa heading to Karonga district, using […]
Department of Immigration has arrested a 20 year old Zimbabwean, Tinashe Blessings Sabu, for illegally entering the country. The arrest took place at Chileka International Airport on May 3, 2017 when Sabu was trying to board a flight on his way to Dublin in Ireland. Confirming the arrest Friday, Immigration National Public Relations Officer, Joseph […]
A combined task force of police and Immigration officials has thrushed out 56 illegal immigrants in Mzimba and the law enforcers are now looking for Malawian fixers. Northern region police spokesperson Peter Kalaya the illegal immigrants are from Somalia. “They were in a seven ton lorry and we managed to intercept them in Mzimba after […]
Zimbabwe immigration authorities have deported 62 Malawian nationals who were arrested because of lack of proper travel documents and exceeding their stay limits. Mwanza immigration spokesperson Senior Immigration Assistant Pasquale Zulu says among them are 12 women and two children below the age of two years. “The International Organisation for Migration facilitated their trip back into the country in […]
Malawi Police in northern border district of Karonga on Wednesday arrested 8 Tanzanian nationals for entering the country without travelling documents who were heading to Kayerekera Uranium mine site. Confirming the development to Nyasa Times, Karonga police deputy spokesperson George Mlewa said the arrest comes after a tip-off from some residents. He said the group […]
About 124 Malawians have been deported from Zimbabwe over the weekend due to lack of proper documentation, Malawi Immigration officials have confirmed. This follows their detention in Zimbabwe jails where they were reportedly being harshly treated. Some spoke of spending three days without food in detention they were being kept. Malawi Immigration spokesperson at Mwanza border […]
Malawi has this year deported over 100 Ethiopians who were satying in the country without a right of abode, a senior government official has said. Speaking during the International Migrants Day on Friday in Lilongwe, principal secretary for Home Affairs Beston Chisamile said the deportation was done after consultations with the Ethiopian government officials. He […]
Malawians living without right of abode in Tanzanians continue facing tough life, officials have revealed. Songwe border post immigration spokesperson Yusuf Shaib told Nyasa Times that the Tanzanian immigration department has arrested over two hundred Malawians over the weekend. Shaibu said the concerned Malawians have reported to his office that they are being tortured while […]
A group of angry Malawians on Saturday 26 November 2016 ganged up in Nkhatabay where they launched a crackdown on undocumented immigrants in what reports indicates it is a retariation to the arrest of about 250 of which many of them hails from the district. The exercise saw two people a Tanzanian and a Mozambican […]
About 250 Malawians were last Friday arrested and kept in Police custody on various charges mainly illegal entry and overstaying in Tanzania. Songwe Border Post Public Relations Officer Yusuf Shaibu confirmed the development in an interview with Zodiak, a private broadcaster in Malawi on Thursday. Shaibu told the radio that the Malawians have already appeared before […]
The Mzuzu First Magistrate Court is on Thursday set to rule on three police officers who are accused of using a police vehicle to ferry illegal immigrants from Karonga to Viphya forest in Mzimba. Leonard Mtokoma, who was head of Police Mobile Force in Mzuzu and his juniors Tionge Nyirongo and Ernest Issa are accused […]
Malawi government has said it will increase its border posts as way of curbing illegal immigrants and to increase more revenue for the cash strapped Malawi. Minister of Lands and Housing Atupele Muluzi said this in parliament when he stood in for minister of Home Affairs Jappie Mhango who was reportedly out for a funeral. […]
Malawi Police in Nkhata Bay District are keeping in custody nine people of Mozambican nationality for entering into Malawi without supporting documents. Nkhata Bay Police Spokesperson, Sergeant Ignatius Esau, said the arrest of the accused followed a tip from good citizens. “Following a tip from well-wishers on Saturday, a team of Police Officers stormed Kang’oma […]
A civil rights organization has warned government that it risks a classic law suit from immigrants whom the state continues to hold in prisons instead of deporting them. Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance Victor Mhango said the government continues to hold 119 immigrants from Ethiopia in the country’s prisons. “This is illegal. […]
A court in Karonga has ordered that a minibus which was used to ferry 27 illegal immigrants recently be forfeited to government and gave each immigrant a three month suspended sentence. Karonga magistrate Julius Kalambo also ordered the immediate deportation of the 27 illegal immigrants from Somalia and Ethiopia. Kalambo said the forfeiting of the […]
Officials from Malawi and South Africa are discussing on how best South Africa can minimise the detention of Malawian economic refugees who are usually rounded up, bundled in police vehicles and dumped at Lindera camp. Former minister of Foreign Affairs George Chaponda who had been appointed agriculture minister in a cabinet reshuffle said this at […]
Scores of foreign nationals continue infiltrating into Malawi in spite of the country’s ceaseless efforts to stop the scourge by instituting their arrest on countless occasions. Last Sunday’s development was no isolated case when police in Rumphi arrested 66 Ethiopian nationals and charged them with entering the country without valid documents. The district’s Head of […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Atupele Muluzi has vowed that illegal immigrants will be kicked out of Malawi after reports emerged that over 400 illegal lags are detained at various prisons in the country. Muluzi said government has issued removal directions for some of the illegal immigrants. “There are presently approximately 300 illegal […]