Ghana and South Africa were Thursday embroiled in fresh diplomatic spat following the killing of a migrant, a death Pretoria said was not linked to the anti-immigrant protests held in the country earlier this week.
Several thousand people marched across South Africa on Tuesday after a weeks-long campaign against undocumented immigrants peaked with an unofficial June 30 deadline for undocumented migrants to leave the country.
More than 25,000 people, including hundreds of Ghanaians, have already fled the country, according to South Africa’s security forces, as African countries, repatriated their citizens in recent weeks in response to the wave of anti-immigrant protests.
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Ghana, South Africa in diplomatic spat after migrant’s death
Source: Vanguard News
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