Nigeria urges AU to make xenophobic attacks a top security priority

By Favour Ulebor, Abuja
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, has called on the African Union to place xenophobic attacks against Africans, particularly Nigerians in South Africa, high on its peace and security agenda, insisting that no African should feel unsafe anywhere on the continent.
In a press statement on Wednesday signed by the ministry’s spokesperson, Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, the minister made the call while receiving a high-level delegation of the African Union Peace and Security Council at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja following the Third Annual Joint Consultative Meeting between the AU Peace and Security Council and the ECOW...