ZIMBABWEAN COUPLE DEPORTED OVER SECRET BURIAL OF CHILD IN BOTSWANA.(PHOTO)

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 ZIMBABWEAN COUPLE DEPORTED OVER SECRET BURIAL OF CHILD IN BOTSWANA A Zimbabwean couple has been deported from Botswana after secretly burying their child without notifying authorities. Motilinah Mpofu and Christopher Ncube were convicted on Thursday of concealing a death after they allegedly dug a grave for their child in the dead of night. The Gaborone court heard the child had died suddenly. Instead of reporting the death to police, health officials, or traditional leaders, the couple quietly buried the youngster and hoped no one would find out. But the secret did not stay buried for long.   Police moved in and arrested the pair. In sentencing, the court ordered that the couple be taken to the Plumtree Border Post for deportation to Zimbabwe.  Top Botswana lawyer Winnie Masitha who offered the couple free legal representation during the trial, confirmed the deportation to BTV News. Masitha believed that the matter should not be viewed only through the lens of crim...

5 TRAFFICKERS,ARRESTED TODAY BY THE ITALIAN POLICEMEN IN RELATION TO WEDNESDAY MIGRANTS DROWNING.

                                                           According to sources,Italy arrested five North African men today friday on suspicion of multiple homicide and human trafficking in the presumed drowning of more than 200 people,saying they used clubs and knives against migrants.Most of the dead were locked in the hold of a boat that sank off the coast of Libya on wednesday.Police said many children were believed to be among those who perished.Two Libyans,two Algerians and a Tunisian ranging in age from 21-24,were placed under formal arrest in Palermo after being questioned yesterday thursday.Police had earlier mistakenly identified the Tunisian as a Libyan.The police said the accused men charged the migrants between $1,200 and $1,800 for the voyage,depending on where they would be placed on the deck of the boat.Those on the hold paid about half as much as those above.The boat was carrying 650 people.Italian and Irish ships rescued more than 400 migrants and recovered 26 bodies,including three children.Police arrested the men after speaking to survivors during the nighr after they arrived in Palermo.A police reconstruction based on witnesses account said three of the men,part of a Libyan based human trafficking ring,alternated steering the boat while the other two kept watch over the migrants.In a police statement that reads ''The arrested are suspected of causing the confirmed deaths of 26 migrants and the presumed deaths of about 200 people who,according to witnesses,were locked in the hold of the boat that capsized''.More photos below.                                                    

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