Last week the Namibian Police, after initially denying that a former Namibian refugee in Botswana, Rodwell Fred Kauhano, had been deported back to Namibia, confirmed that the Botswana government had indeed revoked his refugee status and sent him back to Namibia on January 13.

According to the NSHR, it has now been confirmed by the Botswana government that another Namibian had been deported on January 1.

He has been identified as Cosmos Kachana Mabuku.

According to the Botswana government, he was deported after he had entered Botswana illegally.

As the NSHR would have it, though, Mabuku had been entering Botswana at various times and under various names since October 1998, when he first entered that country under the name of Justus Matengu Simasiku.

He was deported shortly thereafter, the NSHR claimed.

It added that he re-entered Botswana on December 19 1999 under the name Eustace Cosmos Ntembwe, and that he once again entered Botswana under the name Cosmos Kachana Mabuku last year.

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