Mozambique: Cross-border traffic continues to slow; ten repatriated for illegal immigration

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Mozambique: Cross-border traffic continues to slow; ten repatriated for illegal immigration

3:22 CAT | 24 Apr 2020

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Traffic at national border-crossing points continues to fall as a result of Covid-19 counter-measures concerning the entry and exit of people from national territory.

In the week just ended, the National Migration Service (SENAMI) registered at the national level a global migratory movement of 5,673 travellers of different nationalities, of which 2,744 entered the country and 2,929 left, against 98,588 in the same period of 2019, which represents a reduction in 94%.

Of the total number of travellers who entered, 882 are nationals and 1,862 foreigners. Of those leaving, 1,065 are nationals and 1,864 foreigners.

SENAMI spokesman Celestino Matsinhe noted that this was the sixth consecutive week in which there had been a reduction in the migratory flow at national borders.

He explained that significant reductions in migratory movement started in the second week of March, and has since increased from a 5% decline to the current 94%.

He added that, of the 27 national crossing points active during the state of emergency, only 12 registered any migratory movement, and mainly land border posts, which see a flow of cargo trucks.

Meanwhile, ten foreign citizens had been repatriated to their countries of origin by SENAMI for illegal immigration as a result of actions interrogating the legality of the entry and stay of foreigners in the national territory carried out over the past week.

During the operation, 11 undocumented foreigners were questioned – one Tanzanian and the other 10 Malawian, in Cabo Delgado and Zambézia provinces respectively.

Matsinhe observed that the Malawian citizen had regularised his situation, but the rest had been repatriated.

The number corresponds to a 71 percent reduction in relation to the same period of 2019, when 38 foreign citizens in irregular situation were questioned.

Source: Rádio Moçambique