The regional bloc should assist in “promoting national dialogue,” Ambassador Brian Nichols said in an interview Friday with Johannesburg-based broadcaster eNCA.
Tensions between the two countries have been on the rise since June, after the southern African nation was named as one of the “foreign adversaries” exploiting nationwide protests in the U.S. over the killing of George Floyd. The Foreign Affairs Ministry rebuked Nichols this week for engaging in “megaphone diplomacy” by making disparaging public comments and attacks on the government, which it said were in violation of the rules of diplomatic relations.
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