Kenya arrests 39 Somali migrants

  1. Posted on Tuesday 19 October 2010 - 09:34
    Muhyadin
    Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
    Kenya detained 39 Somali migrants who entered the country illegally. District commissioner Munzin Abdullatif said the migrants were arrested in two different locations after residents informed the police. "The foreigners were arrested in two different places within Mwachambe Forest, a few kilometres from where the 64 were arrested on Thursday night," said the district commissioner.
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    Mrs Abdullatif said the immigrants had not valid papers to stay in the country. The foreigners who most of them could not speak in either English or Kiswahili had come from Somalia via Nairobi and heading to South Africa, she added.

    “We are investigating to determine how they entered the country,” she said. The arrested immigrants might have been in the bush for more than a week.

    “The immigrants looked weak and tired, an indication that they stayed in the bush for a number of days without food,” a resident Mr John Mtangili said, according to Daily nation.

    Last Thursday another 64 foreigners were detained in the same area. On Friday, they were arraigned in a Kwale court, where they were charged with being in the country illegally.

    The court fined Sh5, 000 each or serves three months in jail. They claimed they were heading to Mozambique after escaping from Ifo and Kakuma refugees camps in Kenya.

    At least 17,000 illegal migrants from the Horn of Africa flee to South Africa annually. Most of them transit through Kenya, according to the International Organization for Migration’s report in February.

    The organization said crisis and poverty were forcing Somalis and Ethiopians to carry out dangerous journeys to better places.

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