Browsing: Migrations

A plane carrying Zimbabwe’s Vice President Constantino Chiwenga from India was forced to return to the airport after developing a technical fault soon after taking off on Friday, according to media reports monitored here.

An action-oriented research project on migration covering four West African countries, namely Guinea, Niger, Senegal and Sierra Leone, was launched in Dakar on Monday, APA can report.

More than 130 migrants went missing on Tuesday morning off the coast of Djibouti after two boats capsized, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said.

The UN Refugee Agency has confirmed the evacuation on Monday of 130 people out of strife-torn Libya, marking the first evacuations to Niger in 2019.

The spokesman for the Mozambique Migration Provincial Services of the country’s central Manica province, (SENAMI), Jorge Machava says his department will repatriate 40 Malawi citizens who entered the country illegally with an intention to cross to neighboring South Africa, APA can report.

South African Home Affairs Minister Siyabonga Cwele and his Lesotho counterpart, Tsukutlane Au, have visited the Maseru Bridge port of entry which divides the two countries.

Mozambique’s National Migration Service (SENAMI) has blocked the entry of 63 foreigners of different nationalities from January 12 to January 18.

Finally, about 30 emaSwati who were in South Africa (SA) illegally have been deported back to eSwatini.

Freddy Rosemont, the Director General of the Belgian Foreigners Office has announced that the expulsion of Guineans from his country is imminent.

Botswana has come under fire from a Namibian human rights group over what the organisation describes as the brutal and cruel treatment and forcible deportation of refugees from the neighbouring country.