Nigerian Union in South Africa Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/nigerian-union-in-south-africa/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 20 Feb 2017 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 Nigerian Union in South Africa Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/nigerian-union-in-south-africa/ 32 32 Nigeria calls on AU to protect its citizens in South Africa https://jjcornish.com/2017/02/nigeria-calls-au-protect-citizens-south-africa/ Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/02/nigeria-calls-au-protect-citizens-south-africa/ Nigeria’s urging  the African Union to step in to stop what it says are xenophobic attacks on its citizens and other Africans in South Africa. The presidency in Abuja says there’s  a need for the continental body to  intervene urgently, claiming that in the last two years about 116 Nigerians have been killed in Soutb […]

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]]> Nigeria’s urging  the African Union to step in to stop what it says are xenophobic attacks on its citizens and other Africans in South Africa.

The presidency in Abuja says there’s  a need for the continental body to  intervene urgently, claiming that in the last two years about 116 Nigerians have been killed in Soutb Africa , including 20 last year.

Senior presidential aide on foreign affairs Abike Abiri Erewa says in a  statement the treatment of  Nigerians in South  Africa is unacceptable to the people and government of that country.

There was no independent verification of the claimed number of deaths. Neither does the statement say how many were

the result of wider criminal activities rather than

anti-immigrant sentiment.

The Nigerian Union in South Africa says there are about 800,000

Nigerians in South Africa, many of them living in Johannesburg.

 

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