IT IS always a dead giveaway that this government has been caught off-guard and has run out of ideas when it resorts to blaming a "third force" for whatever crisis it finds itself in.

"I was lucky to escape the violent attacks unharmed. I now want to go home to Maputo before I am brutally killed," said 23-year-old Jacinto Makwakwa, a Mozambique immigrant in South Africa.

Libyan Government has again deported Nigerians residing in the North African country for crimes ranging from incomplete immigration documents to other illicit activities.

THE on-going recruitment exercise being conducted by the Delta state command of the Nigeria Immigration Service Asaba has been characterised with large scale racketing allegedly being perpetuated by some officials of the command, investigation has shown.

East African countries on Monday vowed to enhance interstate and intra-regional cooperation in the management of migration.

Director-General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Brunson McKinley is expected to arrive in Addis Ababa today to participate at a meeting that will address Inter-State and Intra-Regional Cooperation on Migration Management in the IGAD Region, scheduled to take place from 12-14 May, 2008.

THE United Kingdom (UK) will be imposing stricter immigration rules come October.

Money sent home by Kenyans living abroad is sparking off a flurry of activity in the country's banking sector, as industry players and international money transfer firms angle for fast growing remittance business.

A total of 20 citizens from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe were repatriated in April this year to their respective countries, by the Angolan Immigration and Foreigners Services (SME) in eastern Moxico province, for illegally entering the national territory.

Immigration authorities have announced the arrest of eight Ghanaians who allegedly entered the country illegally onboard a canoe.

THE Immigration Department on Sunday deported 60 Zimbabwean sex workers whom they also found in possession of several antiretroviral drugs (ARVs).

Botswana is preparing for an influx of refugees fleeing the worsening political crisis in Zimbabwe sparked off by President Robert Mugabe's shock defeat in last month's elections.

There has been an unusually high influx of illegal immigrants in recent times, with several dozens of Somalis and Ethiopians being arrested every now and then, not only in the border areas, but also deep in the country.