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 […]
About two weeks after Nyasa Times exposed that the Immigration department was shielding some illegal immigrants at Fattani Printers, it has transpired that the three immigrants have been given removal directions and are ordered to leave the country on 24 February 2012. Immigration has ordered the deportation of the three illegal immigrants who were working […]
Malawi’s Immigration Department is without controversy and the latest scandal is that 10 officers from the repatriation department led by Schubert Mwalweni collected K60 000 from Fattani Printers in Blantyre to allow three illegal immigrants to continue staying in the country without leave to remain.. Mwalweni was also recently involved in the issuance of a […]
In a space of 30 days, Malawian authorities have arrested over 200 illegal immigrants deep inside the country after successfully beating the security checks raising more questions over the effectiveness of its security system. The latest incident is the apprehension over the weekend of 81 Somali nationals in the central district of Dedza who had […]
Presidential hopeful Peter ‘Thom’ Mutharika is a citizen of Malawi, not of the United States of America as alleged by his detractors, according to the governing Democratis Progressive Party (DPP) broadsheet, Sky News of Friday. On the recent Capital Radio Straight Talk interview programme, Harry Mkandawire of Vice President Joyce Banda’s People’s Party, questioned Mutharika’s […]
Malawi Police have arrested 24 illegal immigrants who were hiding at Ekwendeni Forest in Mzimba District. The illegal lags, all men, comprises of four Somalians and 18 Ethiopians with two whose nationalities were not yet established, according to Northern Region Police Public Relations Officer Norrah Chimwala. Chimwala said villagers tipped off Police at Ekwendeni Trading […]
The Department of Immigration, in conjunction with the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA), says the law requires that all persons applying for renewal of Temporary Employment Permits (TEP) must present a Tax Clearance Certificate issued by MRA. In a joint statement signed by MRA Commissioner General Lloyd Muhara and the Chief Immigration Officer Elvis Thodi on […]
Malawi’s Immigration Department has come out in the open and admitted that it is indeed harbouring an organised criminal syndicate that has been aiding illegal immigrants and human trafficking into the country. The development comes barely a day after Malawi Police chief Inspector General Peter Mukhito accused the department of aiding the foreigners into the […]
Malawi Police head, Inspector General Peter Mukhito, has accused law enforcement officers for giving sanctuary to illegal immigrants and aiding their stay in the country. Mukhito claims there is “systematic organization” involving airport immigration officials that is aiding the illegal entries into Malawi. But Immigration Department Peter Kakatela said illegal immigrants were finding their way […]
Malawi is registering a sharp increase in people coming to the country illegally with the Immigration Department appealing to the general public to report illegal immigrants Immigration Department spokesman, Peter Kakatera, disclose that more than 2,842 cases of illegal immigrants have been reported to the department. He attributed the rise in illegal immigrants arrest to […]
Malawi’s Minister of Internal Affairs and Public Safety Aaron Sangala is embroidered in a Temporary Employment Permit (TEP) scandal where he is allegedly extorting millions of Kwacha from applicants who have exceeded two applications. Highly-placed sources at the Internal Affairs and Public Safety ministry confided in Nyasa Times on Sunday that contrary to the Immigration […]
Paladin general manager at Kayelekera Uranium Mine in Karonga, Jimmie Wilde, will be abdicating from office this month end, a development which has excited workers at mine who have accused him of being a hardcore racist. Sources said Paladin board was not happy with his management style whereby he did not accommodate dissenting views especially […]
All is not well at the Immigration Department with production of passports is low due to the incapacity of the hired Asian contractor. The department at times produces only 50 passports in a day in all the three regions forcing many passport applicants fail to travel abroad. “The problem is that the contractor is dictating […]
Immigration Department will be expected to inspect papers of Chinese national doing business in the districts as part of a campaign ‘flush out’ those living in the country illegally, government has directed. The influx of Chinese nationals who are snatching business opportunities from Malawians even in villages with their cheap imports is causing problems; a […]