17 September 2006
Soyo — The phenomenon of illegal immigration of foreign citizens in the northern Zaire province increased by 30 percent, from January to August 2006, informed Saturday in Soyo city, the provincial director of the Migration and Foreigners Services (SME), João António da Costa.
Speaking to the press, on the occasion of the re-inauguration of the head-offices of Provincial Services after rehabilitation works, João da Costa said that his institution repatriated to the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), 1,556 foreigners of various nationalities in illegal situation, whilst that 1,185 were repatriated in 2005.
The common border with the neighbouring DRC is the point of major illegal entry of foreigners to the Angolan territory, above all citizens of West African countries, but a great number of them are Congolese citizens with 1,358 individuals.
The provincial director indicated that the fluvial region of Zaire River as the one that creates more difficulties for the border and migratory control, due its extension, of the four types of borders controlled by SME in the provincial territory, namely the aerial, sea and land.
In Zaire, SME controls the migratory activity in eight posts, namely in Mbanza Congo, Soyo, Pedra do Feitiço, Nóqui and Cuimba.
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