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Botswana to relocate asylum seekers detained in Francistown

Date: May 14, 2025

Botswana will soon relocate at least 469 asylum seekers currently detained at the Francistown centre for immigrants to Dukwi Refugee Camp, situated some 530km northeast of Gaborone, Botswana's capital city.

The asylum seekers from the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and the better Great Lakes, include an estimated 102 children, some of whom are as young as three years.

Announcing the development early this week, Botswana's Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Nelson Ramaotwana,"Since the current government is an upholder of human rights, we cannot keep you in prison without any charge, without any trial, without any conviction. 

On the basis of the report that was prepared by the Assistant Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Augustine Nyatanga together with the concern of the First Lady Kaone Boko and after consultation and internalization of the report, we came to a conclusion, as a collective that you have to be relocated to Dukwi Refugee Camp. There is going to be some logistical preparations for your relocation. 

That logistical preparation requires two weeks to thirty days."

--ChannelAfrica--

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