Ghana will evacuate 300 citizens from South Africa following a \u200bwave of xenophobic attacks targeting migrants \u200cfrom other sub-Saharan African countries, a post by the foreign minister said on \u200bX.<\/p>\n
Foreign minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa \u200bsaid the citizens had registered for \u2060assistance with the Ghana High Commission.<\/p>\n
Some \u200bSouth Africans are protesting against illegal \u200bimmigration from other sub-Saharan African countries.<\/p>\n
South African authorities have said illegal immigration is a problem \u200bwhile condemning the violence and vowing\u00a0in \u200bApril\u00a0to crack down on xenophobic attacks.<\/p>\n
Ghana has \u200cprotested \u2060over videos of violent incidents circulating on social media and promised to look after its citizens at home \u200band abroad.<\/p>\n
Other \u200bAfrican \u2060countries including Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe\u00a0have warned\u00a0their citizens \u200bin South Africa to exercise \u200bcaution \u2060and stay indoors amid attacks targeting foreigners.<\/p>\n
Nigeria has said at least 130 \u2060citizens \u200bhave\u00a0asked to be flown \u200bhome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ghana will evacuate 300 citizens from South Africa following a \u200bwave of xenophobic attacks targeting migrants \u200cfrom other sub-Saharan African countries, a post by the foreign minister said on \u200bX. Foreign minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa \u200bsaid the citizens had registered for \u2060assistance with the Ghana High Commission. Some \u200bSouth Africans are protesting against illegal \u200bimmigration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":10,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,2377,1129,30,27],"tags":[158,111,77,274,122,76],"class_list":["post-20855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-migration","category-security","category-southern-africa","category-west-africa","tag-ghana","tag-kenya","tag-lesotho","tag-malawi","tag-south-africa","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20857,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20855\/revisions\/20857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}