Xenophobia: Despite Buhari’s Intervention, South Africans Attack Nigerians Again

Nigerians living in South Africa’s Mpumalamga province have come under fresh xenophobic attacks in that country.

The fresh attack came less than a month after President Muhammadu Buhari visited South Africa, where he met with President Cyril Ramaphosa and held talks on the attacks on Nigerians in that country.

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THE WHISTLER had reported how Buhari and Ramaphosa in a joint communique vowed to take decisive actions to prevent a re-occurrence of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other foreigners in South Africa.

Ramaphosa had told Buhari at the meeting that, “these unfortunate incidents are not consistent with the values and principles underpinning South Africa’s constitutional democracy.”

But the latest attack may be an indication that the resolutions both presidents reached at the end of their meeting have not deterred South Africans from carrying out further attacks on foreigners.

While details on the fresh attack are sketchy at press time, the leadership of Nigerian Citizens In South Africa (NICASA) and Nigeria’s Consular General to South Africa are said to be on their way to Mpumalanga province to have first hand account of the incident.

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Prior attacks on Nigerians in South Africa had prompted the federal government in collaboration with Air Peace to evacuate over 900 of its citizens from that country.

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