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Botswana court shuts out Zimbabwean refugees
A COURT in Botswana has turned down an application by Zimbabwean refugees seeking to avoid deportation after the neighbouring country cancelled their refugee status.Media reports from that cou...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:27hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean refugees return from Botswana
FORTY-EIGHT Zimbabweans who were refugees in Botswana returned home yesterday following a joint initiative by Government, Botswana as well as the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Most of...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army deserters fight deportation from Botswana
AT LEAST 300 Zimbabwean political refugees, some of them army deserters, are fighting imminent deportation from Botswana.They fled to Botswana in 2008 during a violent election season that for...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 16:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean refugees forced out of Botswana
Scores of Zimbabwean refugees living in Botswana have lost their bid to remain in the country and now face deportation if they do not voluntarily leave.The nearly 300 refugees fled Zimbabwe du...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe refugees return home
THE first of group of 335 Zimbabweans who sought refuge in Botswana a few years ago is set to arrive in the country today through Plumtree Border Post in an initiative being championed by the Governme...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 15:31hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Obert Mpofu urges Zim refugees in Botswana to 'go home'
HOME affairs minister Obert Mpofu has urged Zimbabwean in Botswana to return home as the Gaborone government made it clear that people could not be refugees forever.According to NewZimbabwe.co...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 19:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rejected asylum seekers in Botswana flee into Zimbabwe
FRANCISTOWN - Of the 359 asylum seekers who were rejected by Botswana, 260 have fled to Zimbabwe where they are housed at the Tongogara refugee camp, Mmegi online reported.Last month, the gove...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Refuges plead for sources of livelihood in camps
About 2 600 refugees at Dukwi Refugee Camp in Botswana have expressed their desire to earn a living through work instead of being reduced to mere charity cases.Speaking at the World Refuge...Published: 28 Jun 2015 at 11:24hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Botswana says refugees must go back home when problems in their country end
Botswana authorities have challenged refugees in that country to go back to their homes when conditions that forced them into Botswana are no longer prevalent in their countries.This was said...Published: 17 Jun 2015 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean exiles in quandary pending forced return
Zimbabweans exiled in South Africa, Botswana and the United Kingdom, pending forced return to the country after noting an improved political situation, are in a quandary following revelations by a gro...Published: 21 Jul 2014 at 08:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Voluntary repatriation of Zimbabweans resumes
FRANCISTOWN - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has resumed a voluntary repatriation programme for hundreds of Zimbabwean refugees who fled to Botswana from political persecution...Published: 05 Jun 2014 at 18:21hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zim refugee sexually defile a 15-year-old girl in Botswana
A ZIMBABWEAN refugee in Botswana, Tickey Dube, appeared at the Francistown Magistrates' Court to answer a charge of molesting a 15-year-old girl after being caught in the act by the minor's relat...Published: 13 Mar 2014 at 15:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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