May 9

• Botswana Flushing Out Zimbabweans

  Financial Gazette

  BOTSWANA has tightened the noose on permit applications, leaving thousands of Zimbabweans in that country whose applications have been rejected with the prospect of being forced to... Read more »

• Ben Jaafar in Algiers - Need to Secure Tunisian-Algerian Borders

  Tunis Afrique Presse

  National Constituent Assembly (NCA) President Mustapha Ben Jaafar stressed, on Tuesday in Algiers, the need to secure the Tunisian-Algerian borders in the light of the latest... Read more »

• Fifty-Million-Dinar Grant to Modernise Border Crossing Points

  Tunis Afrique Presse

  Works of modernising road infrastructure on the level of Tunisia's border with Libya and Algeria will be made by the Ministry of Equipment and Environment, with an amount worth 50... Read more »

• Fight Against Crime, Illegal Immigrations Tops Priority - Home Minister

  ANGOP

  Angola' Home Affairs Minister, Angelo Veiga Tavares, on Wednesday stated that the sector focus its work on the fight against criminality and illegal immigration, Angop has learnt. Read more »

• Chinese Firm Gets U.S. $220 Million Digital Migration Contract

  Times of Zambia

  GOVERNMENT has awarded a tender for the supply, delivery, installation and commissioning of Terrestrial Digital Migration to Beijing-based Star Software Technology Company, also... Read more »

• Customs Comptroller Visits FCT Immigration Command

  Daily Trust

  In a bid to further strengthen the existing relationship between security organizations in the country towards tackling security challenges, the Comptroller of the FCT Area Command... Read more »

May 8

• Uganda Should Respect Her Diplomatic Passport [editorial]

  Observer

  The arrest of three Ugandans in India two weeks ago has resurrected the debate on Uganda's diplomatic passports. Read more »

• SA Tourists Cut Visit After Plane Incident

  Namibian

  THE 12 single-engine planes impounded at Ondangwa airport on Saturday have now been released to fly back to South Africa. Read more »

• New Mozambican Customs Clearance Chaotic

  The Herald

  The introduction of a new electronic customs clearance system (Single Entry Transit Window) by the Mozambican government is seriously affecting imports and exports into Zimbabwe... Read more »

• Stakeholders Brainstorm On Migration Strategy

  Cameroon Tribune

  Members of the National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms (NCHRF), representatives of government ministries and civil society organisations, as well as staff of the... Read more »

May 7

• U.S. Reforms Could Slash African Immigration Levels

  IPS

  Advocates for the African diaspora in the United States have stepped up a campaign to urge the U.S. Congress not to end a longstanding visa programme aimed at boosting immigration... Read more »

• Gambia, Italy Reinforce Pact to Combat Illegal Migration As 20 Gambian Immigration Personnel Leave for Rome

  Daily Observer

  The governments of the Republics of The Gambia and Italy through their Ministries of the Interior are poised to strengthen the bilateral cooperation agreement to combat illegal or... Read more »

• Immigration Intensifies Karate Training for Officers

  This Day

  The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has intensified karate training in order to ensure that its officers and men are physically and mentally alert to tackle the current... Read more »

May 6

• The Long Road Home

  IRIN

  George Malual Deng, 24, has spent two years stuck in a transit site waiting to return to his home in South Sudan's Jonglei state. He is among 20,000 people who have made a home of... Read more »

• 'We Want to Go to Our Own Homeland'

  IRIN

  Years ago, Mary Venerato Laki fled conflict in South Sudan, moving north to Sudan, where she worked as a teacher for 42 years. But after a January 2011 referendum paved the way for... Read more »

• North-Western Tanzania Appeals for Funds to Deport Illegal Immigrants

  Sabahi

  Authorities in the Kagera region of north-western Tanzania have appealed for financial support from the government to deport more than 35,000 illegal immigrants found hiding in... Read more »

• Migrant Assistance Centre in Djibouti Overwhelmed

  Sabahi

  The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is requesting $6 million from donors to support operations at the Migrant Response Centre at Obock in Djibouti, where the number... Read more »

• Morocco Tightens Security Cordons

  Magharebia

  Illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and fleeing jihadists already threaten security in the Sahel region. And if indicators about the convergence of these groups turn out to be... Read more »

• Over 1 Million Nigerians Live in London - Mayor of London

  Vanguard

  Mayor of Brent, London, Micheal Adeyeye, has disclosed that the population of Nigerian immigrants in London has hit over 1 million people. Read more »

• Yang Had 'Open' Work Permit - Lawyer

  Namibian

  THE Immigration Selection Board granted Chinese national Yang Fan a 24-month employment permit which allowed him to work for any employer he wanted to, Yang's defence lawyer has... Read more »

May 3

• French Airport Village Pays for Cameroon Stowaway's Funeral

  RFI

  A French village this week buried an anonymous Cameroonian man who was found dead in the landing gear of an airplane that landed at Paris's Charles De Gaulle airport. His... Read more »

• Kagera RC Appeals for Funds to Repatriate Illegal Immigrants

  Daily News

  KAGERA regional authorities have appealed for funds to enable them deport hundreds of illegal immigrants hiding in various villages. Read more »

• SME Expels Over Fifty Illegal Foreigners in Buco-Zau District

  ANGOP

  At least fifty three citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo who resided in the district of Buco-Zau, about 120 kms north of Cabinda in irregular migratory conditions were at... Read more »

• 'Immigration Blocked 11,000 From Foreign Travel in March'

  Daily Trust

  The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said it stopped 11,000 Nigerians from traveling abroad in March this year for fear that they may embarrass the country. Read more »

May 2

• Challenges of Tackling Ill Treatment of Nigerian Citizens Abroad [analysis]

  Vanguard

  IN late November 2011, there was a published report of crisis in a Nigerian mission in Asia involving Nigerian citizens resident in Bangkok and former officials of the embassy. A... Read more »