The evacuation plan for distressed Nigerian nationals, although delayed, is expected to take flight on Wednesday, said a Nigerian diplomat on Monday.
Nigeria plans to repatriate about 600 citizens from South Africa this week following a wave of xenophobic violence that caused tensions between the countries. Godwin Adamu, the Nigerian Consul General in Johannesburg, said to AFP that there were about 600 now due to be flown back. The violence in the country prompted reprisal attacks against South African firms in Nigeria and the temporary closing of South Africa’s diplomatic missions in Lagos and Abuja.
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