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Cross-border drivers have called on more law enforcement officers to be visible as people are still travelling to various destinations.

More than 20 000 immigrants cross from South Africa into Zimbabwe at the Beitbridge Border Post

by Cwenga Maqhubela

24 December 2022, 8:33 PM

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Border Management Authority says more than 20 000 immigrants have crossed from South Africa into Zimbabwe at the Beit bridge ...

Informal business operators between SA and Zim concerned about possible closure of borders

by Sesona Mahlahla

28 November 2021, 2:23 PM

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Informal cross-border business operators between South Africa and Zimbabwe say their businesses will be negatively affected should borders be closed ...

Egypt’s Sisi opens naval base close to border with Libya

by Bomkazi Malobola

3 July 2021, 11:55 PM

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated a naval base on Saturday 135 km from the border with Libya, flanked by ...

Kgosi Larmeck Mokoena says South African borders are porous and government needs to look at ways to close the gap to ensure that those coming through the borders are not infected.

Contralesa concerned about illegal border crossing as SA moves to lockdown level 1

by Sesona Mahlahla

17 September 2020, 8:31 PM

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The president of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) Kgosi Larmeck Mokoena says they are concerned about ...

The department says the 40 kilometre long project has now been handed over to the Department of Defence and Military Veterans.

Scopa wants answers on controversial SA-Zim’s R37 million fence

by SABC Digital News

3 June 2020, 9:02 PM

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Members of Scopa have expressed dissatisfaction with answers from the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure regarding the 40-kilometre fence ...

Motsoaledi says one of the changes being discussed is that all border posts will operate for 24-hours in order to streamline the processing system.

Motsoaledi in talks to change structure of border posts

by Celestine Hendricks

26 December 2019, 9:56 AM

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Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says he is in discussions with Ministers of neighbouring countries regarding changing the structure of ...

Mpumalanga residents are calling on the government to protect boarders.

Thousands cross the Beit Bridge border post in Musina daily

by Morning Live

13 September 2019, 12:58 PM

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The influx of African immigrants to South Africa, which began post-1994, exploded in xenophobic violence in 2008 and there have ...

Officials in the Mexican border states of Sonora, south of the US states of Arizona and New Mexico, and Tamaulipas, south of Texas, said on Sunday, however, that they were unaware of expansion plans

No expansion yet of US-Mexico asylum program after Trump deal

by Bomkazi Malobola

10 June 2019, 12:23 PM

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United States-bound asylum seekers are not yet being sent back to additional Mexican border towns to wait processing after a ...

A view shows a new section of the border fence in El Paso, Texas, U.S., as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

US states sue Trump over border wall funds

by Bongisipho Magcaba

19 February 2019, 6:10 AM

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A coalition of 16 US states led by California sued President Donald Trump and top members of his administration on ...

As part of the move to extend the active duty troops' mission past a January 31 deadline, the Pentagon said it was "transitioning its support at the southwestern border from hardening ports of entry to mobile surveillance and detection.

US extends troop deployment at Mexico border

by Bomkazi Malobola

15 January 2019, 5:30 AM

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The Pentagon said Monday it would extend until September 30 the deployment of active duty soldiers and Coast Guard members ...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (R) and his Beninoise counterpart Patrice Talon inspect facilities as they arrive for the inauguration of the Nigeria-Benin joint border posts at Seme-Krake in Badagry district of Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital on October 23, 2018. - The presidents inaugurated the newly built Seme-Krake joint border posts of the two countries to enhance free movement of people and goods and economic activities in the region. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

Nigeria and Benin make a new break for the border

by Raymond Akamby

28 October 2018, 6:33 AM

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Nigeria's southwestern border with Benin is notoriously chaotic. Travellers and traders battle corrupt officials, hawkers and buzzing moto-taxis just to ...