THE Immigration Department is today expected to commence the screening and interviewing of 22 Somali juveniles believed to be victims of an international syndicate in human trafficking.
THE Immigration Department has intercepted 22 Somalis youths believed to be victims of an international syndicate involved in human trafficking.
Reports reaching Foroyaa Newspaper on 23rd November 2009, from immigrants who have lived in the Gambia for over two decades, indicate that they are suffering from social alienation.
The Western Cape provincial parliament has asked the provincial government to probe allegations that an ANC councillor instigated the xenophobic attacks in De Doorns last week, which saw 2 500 Zimbabweans displaced.
Home Affairs Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has begun consultations over the drafting of a new migration policy for the country.
During school hours the pupils of Claireville Primary in the port city of Durban are spared the jibes and taunts of not being South African nationals, but the welcome ends when they leave the grounds.
Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ojo Maduekwe, has said that it was high time all ECOWAS states proved they could tackle the obtacles to the free movement of persons and goods within the region.
Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, will today begin work on developing a new migration policy for South Africa.
HOME Affairs Minister Lameck Mangani has warned immigration officers against engaging in corrupt activities because that tarnishes the name of the Immigration Department.
Teachers coming out of training institutions but fail to be absorbed in government employment in Kenya will soon find jobs in other African countries once a mobility protocol within the African Union is signed.
The Assistant Director of Immigration in-charge of Operations Unit, Mr Laud Affrifa, has appealed to officers of the Ghana Immigration Service to give exact and reliable information as frontline officers on the exit, entry and movement of foreigners across the borders to ensure that intelligence report from the Service to other security agencies is accurate.
The Federal Government is contemplating closing down ten of the country's foreign missions out of the 102 existing ones, the Chairman of Nigeria's Presidential Advisory Committee on Foreign Affairs, Chief Emeka Anyaoku has said.
Heads of State of the five East African Community partners yesterday signed the protocol on the establishment of the East African Common Market.
The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from a community in South Africa.
South African refugee rights group, PASSOP, has slammed local government officials for their handling of this week's outbreak of xenophobic violence near Cape Town, which saw more than 3000 foreigners, mainly Zimbabweans, flee their homes.
Farmers in De Doorns have rejected allegations that they are paying Zimbabwean immigrants lower than the minimum wage and are therefore responsible for the xenophobic attacks that erupted in the region this week.
Ms. Betty Bosomtwi-Sam, the Western Regional Deputy Minister, has called on the Ghana Police Service and its allied security agencies to step up efforts in the fight against human trafficking.
The number of Zimbabweans displaced after some of their shacks in an informal settlement outside De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, were attacked and demolished by local South African residents, has risen to about 3,000, said the South African Red Cross Society.
Local farmworkers in De Doorns jeered and shouted obscenities this morning as they drove past a rugby field that has become the temporary home of nearly 2 500 Zimbabweans chased from the town's informal settlements.
Nigeria is the sixth highest destination of remittances from its citizens living in the Diaspora. According to the World Bank Migration and Development brief released recently, Nigeria, with $10bn remittance from its citizens abroad, came after Inida ($52bn), China ($49bn) and Mexico ($25bn).
A 24 year-old Zimbabwean man has been languishing inside an immigration detention centre in Portsmouth for over a year, awaiting deportation.
A newspaper claim that a Nigerian has faked a marriage with his daughter to secure a United Kingdom visa for her has sparked renewed debate for immigration control in the country.
Cabinet has expressed its deep concern about the spate of attacks on foreign nationals at De Doorns in the Boland.
THE government expressed its concern yesterday about the growing perception that Pretoria is limiting the number of Nigerian nationals wanting to visit SA for business and tourism purposes.
Xenophobic violence has once again reared its head in South Africa, after more than a thousand Zimbabwean migrants were driven from their homes in a rural settlement in the country on Tuesday.
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