Two Malawian police officers were arrested last week in the western Mozambican province of Tete, after entering the country illegally.According to a report on Radio Mozambique, the two have been named as Sub-inspector Khonje and Constable Chiwaya, and they normally work at a police station in Dedza. They entered the Tete district of Angonia, in uniform, armed and on the back of a Malawian police motor-bike. They remained in Mozambican police custody for three days, and were set free on Friday, when a Malawian police team visited the Angonia district capital, Ulongue, to negotiate their release.To explain the illegal entry, the Malawian authorities said the two policemen were on duty in the frontier region of Mphathi, when they became lost and inadvertently strayed across the border. They were detained in the administrative post of Domwe and then transferred to Ulongue.This explanation may not entirely convince the Mozambican side, since it is not the first time that the Malawian police have crossed the border illegally. The worst incident took place in 2009, when a Malawian police unit crossed into the northern Mozambican province of Niassa and destroyed a post of the Mozambican frontier guard in Ngauma district.
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