Thread: Tanzania deports over 80 illegal immigrants

Over 80 illegal immigrants deported - immigration
JACOB KAMBILI in Mwanza
Daily News; Sunday,August 24, 2008 @00:02

The Government has deported a total of 83 illegal immigrants and arraigned 21 others, while advising another 32 to legalize their stay in the country in the past year, immigration officials have said.

Mwanza Regional Immigration Officer, Mr Mohammed Mselem noted that the illegal immigrants are part of 156 aliens arrested last year in the region. “The aliens came from various nations. There were 46 Kenyans, 34 Burundians, 33 Congolese, 12 Ugandans, 11 Rwandans and 9 Ethiopians,â€

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/tz.html

Tanzania still hosts more than a half-million refugees, more than any other African country, mainly from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite the international community's efforts at repatriation; disputes with Malawi over the boundary in Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and the meandering Songwe River remain dormant
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 352,640 (Burundi); 127,973 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2007)
Illicit drugs:
growing role in transshipment of Southwest and Southeast Asian heroin and South American cocaine destined for South African, European, and US markets and of South Asian methaqualone bound for southern Africa; money laundering remains a problem