Martin Cobham Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/martin-cobham/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Martin Cobham Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/martin-cobham/ 32 32 Nigeria rows back on row with South Africa https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/nigeria-rows-back-on-row-with-south-africa/ Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/nigeria-rows-back-on-row-with-south-africa/ Nigeria’s rowing back from the tough demonstration protesting xenophobic violence in South Africa. Foreign Minister Aminu Wali says there are satisfactory indications South Africans have taken firm measures to stem the tide of attacks. end Before leaving Pretoria, Nigeria’s acting High Commissioner Martin Cobham told South African officials his recall and that of Nigeria’s Consul […]

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]]> Nigeria’s rowing back from the tough demonstration protesting xenophobic violence in South Africa.
Foreign Minister Aminu Wali says there are satisfactory indications South Africans have taken firm measures to stem the tide of attacks.
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Before leaving Pretoria, Nigeria’s acting High Commissioner Martin Cobham told South African officials his recall and that of Nigeria’s Consul General in Johannesburg reflects Abuja’s outrage at the wave of anti-immigrant attacks.
Now Foreign Minister Aminu Wali is saying there is nothing out of
the ordinary.
He says the media’s wrong using the word recall and insists summoning the envoys is a usual practice in the conduct of diplomacy.
Wali says both his representatives will return to their duty posts.
South Africa responded with unprecedented anger to the the Nigerian action pointing out that it did not recall its ambassador when Abuja authorities took nine months to repatriate the bodies of 84 South Africans killed in a church collapse near Lagos.

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