The vice president and minister of WomenÂ's Affairs, Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, yesterday launched the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 2009 Flagship Report - Human Development Report (HDR) on migration, entitled Â"Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and developmentÂ", at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Kololi.
Contrary to popular beliefs, women have been active immigrants for more than forty years. The large number of Arab women attempting to undertake a perilous sea crossing from their home countries to Europe every year was at the center of interest of the annual symposium held today at the Arab Institute of Enterprise Leaders center, in Tunis.
Libya has commenced deportation of no fewer than 640 Nigerians for various immigration related offences, the Nigerian Immigration Services (NIS) has said. The deportees lamented their tales of woe in the hands of Libyan security officials .
A new wave of xenophobic violence in South Africa is gathering intensity, after six Zimbabwean nationals were severely injured in a vicious attack by a mob of local residents in Polokwane, South Africa.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has just released an animated video online in an effort to educate youth about human trafficking specifically in South Africa.
Kenyan women will be able to secure citizenship for their foreign husbands if the harmonised draft constitution is enacted. The draft says this includes those who are already married. The men will only secure citizenship if they have been married to their Kenyan wives for seven years.
At least 17 foreign citizens were repatriated to their respective countries in November 2009, by the Migration and Foreigners Services (SME), in the eastern Moxico Province, for illegal stay in the national territory.~
The Migration and Foreigners Services (SME) in the southern Cunene Province, reported in the past seven days 12 migratory infringements of illegal entry of foreigners in the country.
Six Zimbabwean men were severely assaulted on Monday night by a mob in Westenburg suburb in the Limpopo provincial capital of Polokwane in South Africa.
The conditions facing hundreds of mainly Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg is developing into a worsening crisis, with civil society groups urging the intervention of the South African government.
The Immigration and Nationality branch office in Gash-Barka region is striving to provide efficient service in various remote areas through traveling to all sub-zones, according to Lt. Colonel Gebremeskel Teklehaimanot, head of the office.
South African health care professionals are endangering the health of the country's large foreign population by routinely denying health care and treatment to thousands of asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. South Africa's foreign-born residents, who are particularly vulnerable to disease and injury, face xenophobic violence as well as ...
South African health care professionals are endangering the health of the country’s large foreign population by routinely denying health care and treatment to thousands of asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. South Africa’s foreign-born residents, who are particularly vulnerable to disease and injury, face xenophobic violence as ...
Tati Town police last Thursday fined four Zimbabweans after bumping into them in an unventilated freight truck along the Francistown-Maun Road near the Orapa turn off.
"It is like they are sending us back to jail," said Robert Hassan, a Rwandan refugee who has become accustomed to life on the streets of Francistown.
More than two weeks after the attacks that drove some 3,000 Zimbabwean migrant workers from their homes in an informal settlement called Stofland, outside De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, the mood among the displaced remains grim.
THE proposed special dispensation for Zimbabwean migrants living in SA is still on the cards but is bogged down in technical hitches and further held up by the need for political approval.
Burundi's government should immediately reverse a new policy of deporting Rwandan asylum seekers without considering their cases, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 27, 2009, Interior Minister Edouard Nduwimana ordered police to return 103 asylum seekers to Rwanda, in violation of international law.
As part of the continuous process of introducing the national smart card, two institutions have already agreed to integrate their data under one system.
South Africa has been re-elected to sit on the International Organisation on Migration's (IOM) Executive Committee.
The country's ports of entry are to be beefed up with additional immigration officers to ensure the free movement of people to and from the country during the festive season.
THE Uganda North American Association (UNAA) president has said the dual citizenship law is insufficient and will not serve the diverse interests of Ugandans in the diaspora.
Zimbabwean professionals in the UK say they will need to see real change before they would even consider going home, despite South Africa's ongoing attempts to resolve the disputes between the bickering partners in Zimbabwe's unity government.
The police have arrested a Zimbabwean man who was declared a prohibited immigrant at the beginning of this year.
A new report released Monday has revealed how the rest of the Southern African region is still battling to cope with the large number of Zimbabweans that have fled the country.
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