FG Offers Final Evacuation, Warns S' Africa Still Unsafe for Nigerians
Nearly 25,000 migrants have fled South Africa as far-right groups organized 120 protests, with police reporting over 900 arrests and multiple African nations launching emergency evacuations.
- Over the past month, nearly 25,000 migrants have fled South Africa amid xenophobic violence and pogroms, with thousands sleeping outside consulates and border posts seeking repatriation.
- The immediate trigger was a self-declared June 30 deadline set by anti-immigrant group March and March, with leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma organizing 120 protests nationwide alongside Operation Dudula.
- Police reported more than 900 arrests nationwide by July 1, including approximately 300 undocumented migrants for violating the Immigration Act, fulfilling a central demand of protestors.
- President Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled a "Comprehensive Approach for Migration Management" on June 7, leveraging an expanded Border Management Authority that intercepted more than 450,000 undocumented migrants in the past year.
- Governments across Africa, including Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana, have organized emergency flights to remove nationals from the largest xenophobic mobilization since 2008, when 62 people were killed.
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On June 30 it was written as an ultimatum on the walls of South Africa for weeks: by that day irregular migrants had to leave the country, otherwise they would have provided them. The signature was of two groups that call themselves vigilantes, Operation Dudula and March and March. Many expected violent demonstrations that fortunately were not there, most of the marches were peaceful according to official sources (108 out of 120 second police), …
South Africa: Xenophobia Is the Symptom but Class Failure Is the Disease
The protests of 30 June did not happen in the affluent suburbs of Sandton or Constantia, but in the townships, informal settlements and inner city margins. And it is this that reveals the unresolved contradictions of post-apartheid class formation.
No signs South Africa's xenophobic violence is easing
"There are no signs that the situation is improving," Nigeria's foreign minister Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu said while announcing more evacuation flights. The post No signs South Africa’s xenophobic violence is easing — FG appeared first on Vanguard News.
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