Day: March 16, 2015
- Africa
Tackling illegal migration pivotal: UK’s Director of Migration
James Sharp, UK’s Director of Migration at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said that it was important that source, transit and destination countries work together to tackle the problem of illegal migration. Sharp said this at a public lecture organized by the British Embassy and held at the Addis Abeba University Institute of Technology (Amist Kilo) campus on Tuesday…
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Seventy one stranded illegal migrants return home
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) –Tanzania announced the returning to home of 71 Ethiopian immigrants. The voluntary repatriation was facilitated together with the Tanzanian Immigration Department. The immigrants were detained in Iringa, Ubena and Morogoro prisons for entering Tanzania illegally. Some of them have stayed in the country for more than two years. Since Early 2014, through the…
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Tanzanian police detain sixty three Ethiopians in Dodoma
Tanzanian police are holding 63 illegal migrants suspected to be from Ethiopia and a Tanzanian driver after the arrest at Kidoka village in Chemba District on Saturday. The Dodoma Regional Police Commander (RPC), Mr David Misime, said that one illegal immigrant, who was identified only as Tajiru aged between 25 and 30 died during the arrest jointly carried out by…
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