South Africa has temporarily closed its embassy in Nigeria
following the ongoing xenophobic crisis, Foreign Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor
disclosed.
She said South Africa was in constant contact with Nigerian
authorities to try to restore calm, adding there is no provision in local law
for compensation for damage caused in the attacks.
“There is an Afrophobia we are sensing that exists, there is
resentment and we need to address that,” Pandor said on the sidelines of a
continental economic conference in Cape Town.
The country’s acting High Commissioner to Nigeria;
Ambassador Bobby Moroe says he has directed the Mission to suspend all consular
activities until further notice.
It was however stated that no official of the commission has
left Nigeria, except those on vacation.
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