Malawi’s government has vowed to shake up the country’s Immigration Act in a fresh bid to slam shut legal loopholes being exploited by human traffickers and organised crime networks. Minister of Homeland Security Peter Mukhito announced the planned overhaul during commemorations marking World Day Against Trafficking in Persons in Lilongwe, revealing that the changes will […]
Zimbabwe has deported 27 Malawians who were on transit to South Africa. The Malawians, according to spokesperson person for Mwanza border, Pasqually Zulu, failed to produce any travelling documents and using unchartered routes. Zulu said the 24 men and three women arrived through the border on Wednesday. “They told us during an interrogation that they […]
There was a disturbing story in the local press recently about 19 Malawian women and children who spent over a month at Chipinge Prison in Zimbabwe for contravening Zimbabwe’s Immigration Act. The story says that of the 19 people, 14 were women and five were under-five children who were travelling to South Africa in a […]
Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare has disclosed that it has managed to successfully reintegrate 158 out of 335 returnees that were repatriated from South Africa last year. Speaking in Salima on Friday on the side-lines of a sensitization meeting for the District Executive Committee on the pilot Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration […]
UN migration agency says it is ready to repatriate willing Malawians who are facing economic, social and political hurdled in South Africa back to Malawi. International Organisation for Migration (IOM) director Pillow Mkomo said his organization has already helped to repatriate 293 Malawians from South Africa on a five-year European funded program. “Malawians living in South Africa […]
Government has rolled out residency identity cards for foreigners in a bid to curb international criminality including human trafficking and drugs trade. National Registration Bureau (NRB) spokesperson Norman Fulatira said the IDs for the foreigners are very important, saying they will help the government know the population of foreigners in the country. “This is very […]
A magistrate court in Lilongwe has released on bail the Immigration Department northern region chief, Richard Chadwala and three of his juniors who were arrested last week on allegations of running a multi-million illegal immigrants syndicate. Chadwala and the other three suspects were told to pay a bail bond of K50, 000 each, report to northern region police headquarters fortnightly […]
Speaker of Malawi parliament Richard Msowoya has returned from the 138th General Assembly of the International Parliamentary Union (I.P.U.),an annual event which brings together all Parliaments from all over the world with a call for review of policies affecting fefugees and migrants. The event which took place in Geneva, Switzerland from 24 to 28 March […]
Authorities in Mozambican Tete province have deported 88 Malawian nationals who were on their way to South Africa probably to look for greener pastures, Malawi immigration officials have confirmed. They say details of those who trafficked them remain sketchy since the alleged traffickers have been detained in Mozambique on human trafficking charges. “Those deported are […]
South African envoy has told President Peter Mutharika to control Malawians flooding her country but without proper immigration documentation. The new South African High Commissioner to Malawi Tenjiwe Mthitsyo said this on Thursday when she presented her letters of credence to the president. She said the mass exodus of Malawians fleeing economic problems back home, […]
Malawi Police in Mchinji are interrogating 34 Democratic Republic of Congo citizens who were found congested in a house belonging to a Malawian woman. It is believed the woman was hiding her as the immigrants wanted to find their way to South Africa. Acting spokesperson for Mchinji Police Madalitso Banda confirmed the police have arrested […]
Immigration officers at Mwanza border in southern Malawi has intercepted and apprehended two Congolese nationals for being found with fake Malawians travel documents. Mwanza Border immigration spokesperson Senior Immigration Assistant Pasqual Zulu said Wednesday evening that Mr Lwahano Mulagalala aged 29 and Mr Kazungu Mulagalala aged 23 all have boarded a Marsmerry bus registration number […]
Human rights groups in Malawi have expressed concern that there are 120 Ethiopians in Malawi prisons including children who were arrested for illegally entering Malawi. An official from Centre for Human Rights Legal Resource Centre Mhango said some of the Ethiopians have stayed in Malawi jails as long as two years, describing it as illegal […]
Government has asked relatives of 12 girls taken out of abusing work places in Kuwait to pay for their air tickets back to Malawi, saying the government has no money. Minister of Foreign Affairs Francis Kasaila said the government is too broke to bring the 12 girls back to Malawi. “If their relatives don’t come […]
Just weeks after Rwanda nationals revealed authorities that former Home Affairs and Internal Security minister, Uladi Mussa, illegally approved citizenships of hundreds of Rwandese, Burundi nationals have also spilled the beans on how the former minister allegedly pocketed money from them to approve their application. A new docket in Nyasa Times possession indicates that a […]
About 120 Malawians who were detained at Lindera immigration removal centre in South Africa for living in the rainbow nation without proper immigration documents arrived back home through Dedza border post on Saturday 17th April, 2016. Immigration Department Public Relations Officer for Dedza James Tambulasi confirmed the development. According to Tambulasi, they expect to receive […]
More than 1 000 illegal Malawian immigrants are currently being held at the Lindela Repatriation Centre, South Africa’s only detention centre for undocumented migrants, and their numbers are increasing in what is seen as a reflection of deepening economic hardship in their home country. “Malawians are flocking to South Africa every day and the numbers are […]
A group of Malawian immigrants to South Africa was attacked by a hippopotamus in Limpopo River as they tried to cross using an illegal entry point and a five year old girl has gone missing since the attack two weeks ago. Zimbabwe’s state owned newspaper, The Herald, reported on Monday that some of the Malawians […]