{"id":18088,"date":"2026-01-12T04:39:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/18088\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:39:27","slug":"angola-and-namibia-agree-to-take-back-illegal-migrants-and-criminals-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/18088\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola and Namibia agree to take back illegal migrants and criminals | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angola and Namibia have agreed to take back illegal migrants and criminals after the home secretary threatened to impose visa bans on them if they failed to do so.<\/p>\n

In November, Shabana Mahmood also warned the government would impose visa sanctions on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) if it refused to co-operate.<\/p>\n

While Angola and Namibia “have met the gold standard by agreeing to improve their processes, the DRC has failed to do so,” the Home Office said.<\/p>\n

It said as a result, VIPs and decision-makers in the African nation have now been stripped of preferential treatment and will have to apply for visas like everyone else, with fast-track visa processing services revoked for all the country’s nationals.<\/p>\n

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The Home Office said there had been “some engagement” by the DRC but the home secretary warned “further measures” will be introduced unless co-operation improves, “up to a complete halt on visas”.<\/p>\n

“We expect countries to play by the rules. If one of their citizens has no right to be here, they must take them back,” Ms Mahmood said.<\/p>\n

“I thank Angola and Namibia and welcome their co-operation. Now is the time for the Democratic Republic of Congo to do the right thing. Take your citizens back or lose the privilege of entering our country.<\/p>\n

“This is just the start of the measures I am taking to secure our border and ramp up the removal of those with no right to be here.”<\/p>\n

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The measures are part of the government’s efforts to scale up the removal and deportation of illegal migrants.<\/p>\n

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The Home Office said since July 2024, the government has deported nearly 50,000 people with no right to be in the UK, a 23% increase. During the same period, over 7,000 foreign national offenders have been returned from the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angola and Namibia have agreed to take back illegal migrants and criminals after the home secretary threatened to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102],"class_list":{"0":"post-18088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-namibia","8":"tag-namibia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}