Namibian Refugee Leader Clocks Four Months In Custody

Monday, January 27, 2020

FRANCISTOWN: The Botswana government has said that it is still in negotiations with the government of Namibia to allow prominent leader, Felix Kakula and four other refugees, who are still under detention at the Francistown Centre for Illegal Immigrants (FCII), to return to the latter country.

Kakula and his colleagues, Nervous Lutambo, Richard Mosupali, Mikini Smith and Gasper Machana have been in custody at the FCII since September 2019.

Kakula, along with other Namibian refugees from the Caprivi Strip, were declared illegal immigrants after they refused to register for voluntary repatriation at the end of August.

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