Churches oppose deportation of Namibian refugees

The mainline churches’ organisation says a Tripartite Commission Report for the Go-and-See Come-and-Tell Mission, on which the repatriation decision was based, was left incomplete and aborted. The churches were part of the Botswana government and UNHCR mission in June and July, 2015 which sought to establish whether Namibia was safe for the refugees to return.

On Monday, members of the BCC were at the Lobatse High Court in support of the refugees’ application to halt their possible deportation. The court temporarily halted the deportation, which was a possibility after the Namibians’ refugee status expired on December 31.