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12:32 CAT | 02 Feb 2018
File photo: Senami spokesperson Cira Fernandes
The Mozambican state spent more than thirteen million meticais last year repatriating 3,972 foreign citizens found in the country illegally, National Migration Service (SENAMI) spokesperson Cira Fernandes told a weekly press briefing yesterday.
Of the returnees, the majority were Malawian, Zimbabwean, Tanzanian and Nigerian citizens settling in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Tete, Niassa and Nampula, in the northern and central regions of the country.
Fernandes noted that the figure for 2017 was 15 percent lower than in 2016, thanks to organisations and associations from the respective countries which had helped defray the cost of repatriation.
The actual figures are, for 2017: 13,032,368.40 meticais against 15,257,289.20 meticais for 2016.
In the same briefing, Fernandes reported that 45,160 Mozambican citizens were repatriated last year: 45,000 were deported from South Africa, 68 from Zimbabwe, 64 from Malawi and one from Tanzania, as a result of being in those countries irregularly.
Source: Notícias
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