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Nigeria will bring home the last group of its citizens fleeing xenophobic violence in South Africa on Wednesday, closing a five week rescue operation that has drawn hundreds of traumatised returnees back to Lagos and pushed relations between Abuja and Pretoria to one of their tensest points in years. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
The Federal Government has confirmed that another evacuation flight carrying Nigerians from South Africa will arrive on Tuesday, as regional tensions escalate ahead of planned nationwide anti-immigrant protests scheduled for June 30. The spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Ebienfa, disclosed that an Air Peace aircraft departed Nigeria on Monday at 3:00…
Two hundred and sixty-eight Nigerians evacuated from South Africa following recent xenophobic attacks are due to arrive in Lagos this morning, with the federal government receiving them at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, will represent the federal government in receiving the returnees, according to a…
Hundreds of foreign nationals mostly from Malawi and Mozambique have sought safety in community halls along South Africa’s southern coastline after mobs went door to door telling them to leave the country. Many spent nights in the bush or mountains before reaching the centres in towns such as Gansbaai, Kleinmond and Stanford. The violence…
