Nigeria’s leader in South Africa after attacks on foreigners

Nigeria’s president was meeting with South Africa’s leer on Thursday after a wave of attacks on foreigners angered many African countries and led to an extraordinary airlift to take hundreds of Nigerians home. talks between Nigerian President Muhammu Buhari and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is also a meeting of Africa’s two largest ecomies, with more than $3.3 billion in tre between m in 2018. South Africa has been making efforts to mend ties with Nigeria and ors after its government faced criticism for t explicitly speaking out against xephobia at first but inste framing violence as a crime.

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Diplomatic missions closed

More than 12 people were killed and more than 700 arrested after bands of South Africans in Johannesburg and capital, Pretoria, launched attacks against foreign-owned shops and stalls, looting and burning small businesses and attacking some shopkeepers. Nigeria’s foreign minister called attacks “sickening” and government recalled its high commissioner to South Africa. South Africa temporarily closed its diplomatic missions in Nigeria, citing concerns over staff safety. In Nigeria’s megacity Lagos, operations of South African telecommunications giant MTN were targeted in retaliatory attacks.

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"Totally Committed"

South Africa’s president w says his government is “totally committed” against attacks on foreign nationals. He ackwledges frustration about country’s high unemployment and sluggish ecomy but has told countrymen t to take it out on foreigners. Outbreaks of violence against Nigerians and citizens of or African nations have regularly erupted in South Africa in recent years, with some South Africans accusing foreigners of peddling illegal drugs or taking jobs. attacks on Nigerians have led to growing sentiments against South African companies doing business in Nigeria, with many people calling for ir closure. periodic violence against foreigners in South Africa is in sharp contrast to hospitality that or African nations showed to black South Africans during ir long fight against harsh system of white mirity rule kwn as aparid, which ended in 1994.

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