Twenty-eight of the suspects appeared at the Makadara Law Courts, where a representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Bemih Kanyonge told Principal Magistrate Eunice Nyutu that some of them were in the country legally as refugees.
The suspects were detained in Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi before being charged.
Nyutu remanded the suspects to the Industrial Area Remand Prison at Kanyonge's request that they be moved from Kasarani Stadium.
The 18 other Ethiopians appeared before the Milimani Law Courts on Monday, also on suspicion of being in Kenya illegally. They were arrested Friday in Loitokitok with a driver and conductor of a bus believed to have been ferrying them across the border to Tanzania.
Meanwhile, the security sweep dubbed Operation Usalama Watch continued in Mombasa and other parts of Nairobi.
More than 100 suspects believed to be from Somalia and other countries were arrested in parts of Mombasa Saturday night, according to The Standard, while police arrested another 55 people in Mombasa on Monday in a security sweep targeting criminals and illegal immigrants, according to Kenya's Daily Nation.
The ongoing security crackdown in Eastliegh has been expanded to other parts of Nairobi, including South C Estate, where police arrested 34 people on Monday, according to Daily Nation.
"The operation will target several other estates in the city, especially those that we feel are vulnerable to attacks by criminal gangs and terrorists," Administration Police Spokesperson Masoud Munyi said Tuesday morning. "We must protect our people irrespective of their tribe, religion and colour."
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