Zambia: Clamp Down on Illegal Immigration

Hundreds of people who were arrested and detained by immigration authorities after they entered Zambia illegally during recent years are to be returned to their home countries this week, according to a government spokesman. More than 200 people without documentation to prove their legal status in Zambia face deportation in the next few days as part of a three-year government operation to end the movement of "prohibited aliens" into the country, immigration spokesman Ibvuta Lungu told OneWorld Tuesday.