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The Federal Government is talking tough over the spate of xenophobic attacks against Nigerians, calling on the South African authorities to take “concrete” action over the development.
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, who spoke on Monday during a meeting with South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, who is a special envoy of President Cyril Ramaphosa, said there are growing concerns over recurring xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa.
“We’ve seen a pattern emerge as early as 1995, in 1998, in 2006, in 2015, in 2016, 2019, 2021, 2024, and 2026. It is on record that from 2022 alone, 98 Nigerians have died in mob actions, in hate-related actions that we have called Afrophobia, because we found that the primary victims of this ugly situation are…
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