FG demands urgent action against attacks on Nigerians in South Africa

The Federal Government has urged South Africa to instrumentality urgent steps to halt xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks against Nigerians and different African nationals surviving successful the country.

The authorities besides called for amended migration policies, liable governmental enactment and stronger relations among African countries to forestall further attacks connected migrants.

The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Sola Enikanolaiye, made the telephone connected Tuesday during a virtual roundtable connected “South Africa’s Xenophobia successful Comparative Perspective”, organised by the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs.

Enikanolaiye said Nigeria considered the concern a superior contented that should beryllium addressed without either denying the occupation oregon exaggerating it. He besides said the word Afrophobia amended described the attacks.

He described the unit arsenic having “a peculiarly African, post-colonial and post-apartheid character.”

The curate said it was disturbing that citizens of countries that supported South Africa dur...