Malawi’s Department of Immigration says it is planning to open new border posts in all the regions bordering with Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania as one way of controlling illegal immigrants. Speaking during the inauguration of the 9th Intake of new recruits Immigration Course at Kanjedza Police Training School, Chief Immigration Officer, Hudson Mankhwala said his department […]
Police in Dedza are keeping in custody a business woman for habouring three illegal immigrants from Somalia. Dedza police publist sergeant Edward Kabango says the woman Shyreen Sheha contravened section 23 sub-section 1 of immigration act. “Sheha told the police that the three Somalia’s were brought to her home by a man whom she claimed […]
A Magistrate Court in Karonga district has convicted and sentenced four Malawians to serve a total of 16 months imprisonment with hard for aiding 62 Ethiopians to enter Malawi illegally. The four are Charles Msowoya, 40 years of Mwahimba village; Allan Kaponda, 30 years, of Mwafilaso village; Davie Kawonga, 30 years, of Malema village and […]
Malawi Immigration official have arrested Médecins Sans Frontières -MSF (Doctors Without Borders) head of mission in the country for allegedly working without a permit, Nyasa Times has learnt. MSF is an international medical humanitarian organization. Rodd Gerstenhaber, an American, was arrested by immigration officials on Thursday . An Immigration official not authorised to speak to the […]
Malawi Police rounded-up and arrested eight illegal immigrants in the commercial capital Blantyre on Thursday night in the ongoing crackdown of foreigners staying in the country without legal rights. According to the Southern Region Police Spokesperson, Nicholas Gondwa, the raid was carried out in the city mainly to weed out foreigners who came into the […]
Malawi authorities are rounding up suspected illegal immigrants in a large-scale deportation drive which has seen the 47 Ethiopians arrested by Police in the northern border district of Karonga. The illegal lags tried to enter Malawi through uncharted routes. Karonga Station Officer William Kadzayekha said the Ethiopians entered Malawi through the Ngana area and that eight of […]
Newly appointed Immigration Chief, Hudson Mankhwala has assured Malawians that his department was doing all it takes to reduce the influx of illegal immigrants into the country. “We are making sure that security is enhanced in all our border posts so that the issue of illegal immigrants should be history and that any foreign entry […]
Two Malawian nationals have been convicted by a court in Zambia for being illegal immigrants. According to Zambia’s official news agency – Zanis – the Livingstone Magistrate Court convicted the Malawians for unlawful stay in Zambia. Frank Gama Naison, a Basket Maker, entered Zambia from Malawi using Mwami border control for the purpose of doing […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe have arrested a man of Indian origin for staying in the country illegally and conducting business without permit. Lilongwe police Public Relations Officer Kingsley Dandaula said the man Said Abus, 28, was arrested on Monday at 10:00hrs in the morning at Bwalolanjobvu in Area 2. The Police was tipped and started following him […]
Democracy is all about transparency. We at the Nyasa Times opposed the Bingu wa Mutharika government because of the backroom deals that characterized some public appointments and firing. We are afraid a similar trend may emerge with the new Joyce Banda administration. There are four cases that we can point to: The ACB Director was […]
President Joyce Banda has appointed Hudson Mankhwala as Malawi’s new Chief Immigration Officer, in the department of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Nyasa Times understands. Mankhwala, who has served previously as Immigration spokesman and Chief Passport officer, replaces Elvis Thodi who was given his marching orders a day after he was hauled for a meeting between […]
President Mrs Joyce Banda has made an impassioned plea to Malawians not to aid illegal immigrants into the country, saying the continued influx of illegal immigrants poses a threat to the country’s economy, security and even jobs. “Interestingly I have some passports of people who cannot even utter any single word of Chichewa or any […]
Malawi Police have arrested the fourth suspect in an alleged syndicate to transport illegal immigrants to Malawi who drowned while trying to cross Lake Malawi which three weeks ago. About 49 of the reported 60 Ethiopian and Somali illegal immigrants drowned on Lake Malawi in Karonga District after an overcrowded boat they were sailing in […]
The bodies of dozens of Ethiopians, believed to be illegal migrants, have been recovered from Lake Malawi after their overcrowded boat capsized earlier this week, police said on Thursday. “As of today, 47 bodies have been recovered,” Malawi police spokesman Davie Chingwalu told AFP, adding that they had been buried in mass graves “because the […]
Police in Mzimba have arrested 138 Ethiopians who were illegally in the county. Mzimba Police Station spokesperson Gift Nyirongo confirmed the development in an interview with Nyasa Times on Tuesday. Nyirongo said the illegal immigrants were arrested on 16 April near Luwawa forest after Police received a tip off from members of the community. He […]
Malawi Police in northern district of Chitipa have arrested 70 Ethiopians and a Somalian for illegally entering the country. The Police have also arrested three Malawians for aiding these illegal immigrants. The three are Mashaka Mumba 26, Lughano Nyondo 32 and Albino Mwambene 31. They all come from Mwandambo village in Karonga. According to Chitipa Police Officer-in-Charge […]