Traditional leaders in Malawi’s northern border districts of Karonga and Chitipa are demanding government authorities to relocate Dzaleka refugee camp to boarder sites which they say are areas highly infested with immigrants. Speaking during the meeting of 47 chiefs from the two border districts held at Karonga district council offices, Paramount Chief Kyungu of Karonga […]
Court users in Malawi’s northern district of Karonga have observed that illegal Ethiopia immigrants whom the police have been arresting in the recent past are the very same people they have been arresting attributing this to government’s poor process in repatriating the illegal immigrants. This came to light during court users meeting on Wednesday where […]
Police in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga have found a dead body of an Ethiopian illegal immigrant who was dumped near St. Annes Roman Catholic hospital along Karonga-Mzuzu M1 road and arrest 36 others in the process. Officer-in- Charge for Chilumba Police Alimakiya Daka says the illegal immigrants were travelling in unknown vehicle heading […]
Six illegal immigrants from Ethiopia are under police custody in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga following their arrest on Friday. The arrest comes few days after the police in the district nabbed 35 illegal immigrants from the same country. Karonga Police Officer In-Charge Forster Mangani blames the influx of the illegal immigrants into Malawi […]
Police in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga are taking a bold step towards reducing crimes, which is reportedly rampant in the district largely because of its border status with Tanzania. Cases of illegal immigrants and theft are common in the border district especially its southern part at Mlale due to three border routes of […]
The Mzuzu Senior Resident Magistrate Court has fined a truck driver MK46,000 or in default serve a six month jail term after he pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting 29 illegal Ethiopian immigrants. The driver, Stanley Mbonekera, from Kapheta Village in T/A Kalumbu in Lilongwe district, paid the fine. During the court appearance, d efense Lawyer […]
The Mzuzu Magistrate Court has fined 44 illegal immigrants from Somalia and Tanzania MK25,000 each or in default serve a three months custodial sentence after convicting them for either illegal stay or entry. Police in Malawi’s northern city of Mzuzu in conjunction with Forestry officials nabbed the foreigners in an operation meant to rid the […]
The Department of Immigration has uncovered a visa processing syndicate which is happening at the Malawi High Commission in Maputo, Mozambique. Public Relations Officer (PRO) for Central Region, Ealack Banda, said immigration officials at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) suspected the coming of Pakistan nationals with visa letters prepared in Maputo-Mozambique to be fraudulent. He with […]
By Ulemu Teputepu, Nyasa Times The Malawi Embassy in South Africa has dismissed reports that its citizens who are detained at the Lindela Repatriation Centre near Krugersdorp, South Africa for illegally staying in that country are being ill-treated by immigration officials. The embassy was reacting to reports that Malawians detained at the camp are living […]
Police in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre are intensifying their sweeping exercise which seeks to flash out illegal immigrants who are flocking the city. Southern region police spokesperson Nicholas Gondwa says the police have so far rounded up 40 illegal immigrants mostly from Pakistan and India since the start of the exercise on Tuesday and are […]
An Ethiopian national believed to have illegally entered the country was found dead in a rest house in the northern city of Mzuzu . Wednesday morning. Mzuzu Police spokesperson Maurice Chapola said the deceased whose particulars could not be verified, had booked a room at Sungabana rest house at Chibanja township in Mzuzu. A rest […]
Police in Malawi’s capital city Lilongwe Sunday morning arrested 41 Ethiopians as they were trying to beat the immigration system and cross the country’s porous borders and find their way to South Africa. The 41 foreigners who are believed to have just arrived into the country through Tanzania although they claim to be from the […]
Police in Mzuzu arrested yet another Malawian citizen this week for harbouring seven Ethiopian nationals who are suspected to have entered the country illegally. Mzuzu Police Publicist, Maurice Chapola, confirmed the development, saying they arrested 40 year old Stephano Chipeta on Wednesday alongside the alleged illegal immigrants at his home, Msiki Village, near Dunduzu Road […]
President Mrs Joyce Banda has said Malawi has high rate of illegal immigrants most of whom claim to be asylum seekers from countries that have not been at war for a very long time , saying all illegal immigrants should be removed. Banda, speaking on Friday when she presided over the commissioning of police-officer cadets […]
The Lilongwe Chief Resident Magistrate Court Tuesday adjourned a case in which three immigration officers are answering charge of aiding illegal immigrant entry. The three were identified in the court as Dickens Chiutsi(41), Rex Peter Phiri(54) and 47 year old Bernard Zenifala Kadetseka .They are answering charge of aiding and abetting unlawful entry into Malawi […]
alawi Police Service has arrested five Zambian nationals who had no right of abode in the country and would be deported to Zambia. The Zambian nationals were nabbed a sweeping exercise that was carried out at Nkhamenya Trading Centre on Wednesday night, Police Public Relations Officer Sub Inspector Edwin Kaunda has said. They were amongst […]
Malawi Police in Mzimba have arrested 33 year old Samuel Banda for aiding seven Ethiopians to enter into the country illegally. Banda, who works as a hospital attendant at Mzimba hospital,l was arrested on Novermber 5. Mzimba police spokesperson Gift Nyirongo confirmed the development in an interview with Nyasa Times saying the suspect kept the […]
The Malawi Department of Immigration over the weekend conducted an operation which saw 34 foreigners apprehended. Immigration Public Relations Officer, Martha Gonondo said the group comprised of 15 Pakistanis, 11 Indians and 8 Chinese nationals. “Out of the 34, 15 were released after their relatives had produced their valid documents while the others were taken […]