Kenya investigating suspected migrant-smuggling case

AKenyan court has ordered that 41 Ethiopian nationals should remain in custody for another six days pending investigations into how they entered the East African nation.

They were arrested on Monday at a house in the capital, Nairobi.

Two suspected people traffickers - a Kenyan and an Ethiopian - were also detained.

The head of Kenya’s Transnational Organized Crime Unit, George Mutonya, told the BBC that the Ethiopians did not have the right documentation to prove their legal status at the time of the police raid.

Kenya is often used as a route for illegal migration to neighbouring countries like Tanzania and further afield to South Africa and also countries in the Middle East. Source: BBC