Outcry as Botswana tightens refugee protocols

The Agency has noted Botswana’s increasing rejection and detention of asylum seekers as well as stringent encampment protocols for those allowed in. Botswana houses well over 2,000 refugees at the Dukwi Refugee Camp, with other asylum seekers at the Francistown Centre for Illegal Immigrants.

Speaking at an event to mark Botswana’s efforts to help refugees in the last 50 years, Modey-Ebi said lately, the government was turning its back on those seeking protection. “We have seen the stringent policy of the government toward the institution of asylum with questions being raised why persons transit other countries to end up in Botswana,” she said.