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The violence prompted 300 Mozambicans to return home by their own means over the weekend, with more than 500 still in the country now beginning the official repatriation process.

At least five Mozambican nationals have been killed in “xenophobic attacks” in South Africa over the weekend, the Mozambican government said, marking the first deaths officially linked to country-wide protests against undocumented immigration.

About 800 Mozambicans got caught up in violence that broke out in the southern coastal city of Mossel Bay on Friday, the government press office said in a statement received on Tuesday.

“Regrettably, seven Mozambican citizens have died, five of them as a direct consequence of the xenophobic attacks and the other two as a result of a road accident, when they were travelling in a private vehicle on their way back to Mozambique,” the statement said.

The violence prompted 300 Mozambicans to return home on Saturday, said the statement.

“The remaining just over 500 have since been sheltered in a safe location in the Western Cape Province, and as of today, 1 June, the process of their repatriation to Mozambique is already underway,” it said.

South African police said on Sunday they were investigating the deaths of two men at an informal settlement in Mossel Bay, a port town about 380km (236 miles) east of Cape Town, where xenophobic attacks had been reported.

They did not say whether the deaths were linked to the protests. It was also not immediately clear what nationalities the two men were.

But the area mayor, Dirk Kotze, voiced “deep concern and dismay at the current xenophobic attacks where people have been murdered, houses burned and families displaced”.

The region has seen anti-migrant protests similar to those reported in the financial capital Johannesburg, Durban and parts of the Eastern Cape province in recent weeks.

South Africa has faced recurring waves of xenophobic violence since 2008, when dozens of migrants were killed and thousands displaced in attacks across the country. Similar flare-ups occurred in 2015 and 2021.

The latest spike in anti-immigrant tensions comes as political parties seek support before local government elections in November.

Princedapace:
I have been saying this, without serious protest, no democracy can work. Especially african leaders, they so selfish. US might have given them small US dollars, small properties here and there and boom, they can sell out their entire country.
The day Africans start making life a hell for their leaders, things will never change. Also, why are these forien countries so wicked? Like why? Like why cant they just leave us alone.

Hundreds protest near the site of the planned facility, which US officials say would serve Americans who have been exposed to Ebola.


Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in central Kenya to protest a planned Ebola quarantine facility at a military base that would take in United States nationals.

Demonstrators rallied on Monday in the city of Nanyuki, days after Kenya’s High Court ordered the suspension of the plan. The suggestion that Kenya should host people exposed to the virus, an outbreak of which has killed over 200 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighbouring Uganda, has sparked anger in the country, which has recorded no cases of the virus.

Footage obtained by the Reuters news agency showed a crowd of about ⁠100 people on roads leading to the Laikipia airbase – site of the planned facility – blowing ⁠whistles and some riding atop a pickup truck.

Smoke could be seen rising from something burning on the road. The agency said police and the military had increased their presence on roads leading to the airbase.

US officials have said that a 50-bed unit is planned at the base to serve US citizens who have been exposed to the virus but are still asymptomatic.

However, a lawsuit arguing that ⁠the site could endanger public health, given Kenya’s fragile health system, and that the agreement lacked transparency, was accepted by Kenya’s top court on Friday.

The US government has said it intends to commit $13.5m towards Kenya’s Ebola preparedness efforts. However, few details regarding the planned centre have been released.

Health Minister Aden Duale said on Saturday that the agreement was part of ‌a wider push to strengthen emergency response systems, adding that the quarantine centre is intended for “everyone” and not exclusively for US nationals.

The site was expected to have become operational last Friday, according to US officials. A number of military aircraft flew in and out of Nanyuki late last week and over the weekend, in what diplomats and experts said appeared to be part of ongoing preparations, despite the court order.

‘Picketing for our lives’
Patrick Wahome, one of the demonstrations’ organisers, told Reuters that the protesters wanted the facility to ⁠be shut down for good by Tuesday, June 9.

“Nanyuki is a very ⁠small town. The military personnel who serve the base … live with us. Our kids go to the same schools and that means if anyone is infected, we are all infected,” he said. “We are picketing for our lives.”

Malin Ndegwa said Kenya should not be exposed to the virus by hosting foreigners when it is not the epicentre of the outbreak.

“Why are they not doing it in the DRC (Congo)? Why are they not doing it in Uganda? Why must they bring it here?” he asked.

“We are saying, we categorically, no negotiations, no public participation, we want nothing. We want that facility taken out of our town, we want it taken out of Kenya,” he told the Associated Press news agency.

Nicotinekills:
Life is not always calculated like this ooh
Have seen a girl who had two children at home and still went ahead to marry the richest man from my place then she changed her family's story

I have seen a stark illiterate get opportunity to work for a woman as a maid and then the woman took her abroad and she married a white man

I have seen a bricklayer whose very poor wife from a very poor background changed her husband's story after her brother made it and remembered her.

I as a person is a testimony of the fact that life has no calculation

dragunov:
Why are these people hellbent on sustaining this delusion? What is all this? Ojukwu really run these people strong ting. Despite the fact that there are several books out there that really explained what happened. Na wa o.

Incognito403:
Upload the video let's see your proof.
Mind you, what you call proof can reflect your level of intelligence. So try not to make fool of yourself.

Ballmer:
All this is happening while the fool peter was making noise online, anyway na consequencesof una foolishndexision una de enjoy. You go enjoy am tire.

Incognito403:
"I don't need proof for my claim. I'm stupod enough to be used for propaganda"

Incognito403:
Did you see him chanting anything?
What do you even know about this strange photo except a (probably fictional) name and attributes that were attached to it.

Coldspice:
Have you you ever seen Peter Obi say anything when Igbos are at the receiving end?

But let a goat die in kano or Lagos, he will run there.

A goat in Jigawa has more value to them than the lives of their kinsmen.

Incognito403:
Interesting how there was no terrorism in the world until the staged 9/11 attack.

Incognito403:
Mossad agent getting dumped like tissue after being used

TheStoriesOfMan:
Naso people no dae mind their business.

Tareq1105:
My friend keep quiet there.

How dare you think government is not doing anything to secure their release? You think anybody is happy about what is happening?

The sowore you're talking about spoke from the angle of inexperience. He doesn't know what he's saying.

It's easy to talk from outside but when you find yourself there, it's only then that the reality will dawn on you.

I don't know why you guys think a leader would be happy to see his people kidnapped for ransom. You think Seyi Makinde is sleeping well? You think Tinubu is not doing anything about it? Common, let's be reasonable and guided in our comments.

Sowore is a small boy full of fantasy.

samwash:
Una wen dey defend the man now , what if his actions leads to serious injuries or even death, Una nor go talk like this.
I use God take beg Una, if person offend you and it's almost leading to a physical fight, just use wisdom and leave or involve it doesn't make you a coward, rather you an heto.
Many pple are half death, nursing different heath issues, small thing it will leads to something else.

franchasofficia:
When God and his destiny decides.


The race of life is not for the swift or for the wise or for the strongest or for the most hardworking or the smartest or the most intelligent or for the most beautiful/handsome, but of God that showeth mercy to whom He had decided to show mercy.


Look around you, there are very smart and intelligent people that are still struggling with life. There are strong people that are struggling to survive. There are hardworking men that are very broke and poor. There are very beautiful ladies that are struggling to find a partner while some are married and regretting or struggling to feed in that marriage. There are some handsome guys that are struggling to find just one woman to be with them. On the contrary, there are very dull people that are excelling in life beyond imagination. There are lazy people that are rich and famous. There are ugly women married to very rich and influential men. There are rich ugly women. There are ugly guys married to the hottest women you can only imagine, and etc.


So as a man you can decide that you will stand on your feet before you turn 30yrs or 35yrs and God will say He will bless you abundantly beyond your imagination before you even reach 30yrs.


God can decide to make it 50yrs, if thats your destined time, no matter how smart or hard you work, you will keep struggling and failing until you hit 50yrs and you will just realize that everything you lay your hands on will start working, even the things you once failed trying to do in the past, the stars will start aligning in your favor once you reach your God destined time.


Some people will say its all lies but they are saying it because they are destined to say it right now.


No human can run beyond his or destiny in life. Life is spiritual, we are only a physical manifestation of our spiritual being.

Belurved1:
Why only European clubs only, make Dem mention world valuable clubs...walahi..naa Saudi Arabia clubs go occupy top 10 position.

Tenses:
Early America had over 575 tribes.

Tenses:
The "sole messiah" as you chose to call it is the CATALYST.

We have mahatma Gandi, Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castrol, Lee Kuan Yew etc. These are men who ignited the change in the respective countries and I identify PO as the man that can do the same in Nigeria.

As for the multilingual nature of Nigeria being a challenge. I don't think so.

America 🇺🇸 has the highest number of spoken languages in the world 🌎 (I stand corrected). We have virtually all countries represented in America yet it did not affect there unity.

There was a time Nigerians were so unity. At least I was old enough to know that.

Then I remember how people will freely give out food and water to the herders.

We can get back to that era. We need that "sole messiah" that will galvanise the people towards a better Nigeria 🇳🇬.

kerry57:
Politically, trump behaves like Nigerian politicians. He doesn't care about public opinion. No sitting president of America has ever had his picture on the dollar note

I know the next American president will undue most of the the things he has done. Watch out.

Tenses:
Someone has got to try.

As I suggest, make effort to watch the documentary titled "men who built America".

The president that set the change in motion was sponsored by cutthroat businessmen that what the rot to continue but when he came in he did otherwise.

The decay in this country is deeper than anyone can imagine but if any change must happen it got to start with the head.

Someone have got to try.

Tenses:
I have had a frank discussion with Nairalanda1 and I told him most of his solutions he proffered are similar to that of PO.

I would want you to look up on the documentary, "men who built America ".

America 🇺🇸 was as corrupt, if not more than today's Nigeria. It took just one president to set the path of which today's America is known.

I don't expect PO to magically fix the country over night but it's the transformational changes that he will set on motion that will be built on by successive government that I look forward to.

I'll will leave you with a quote from Peter Obi

"If the head is not corrupt, you'll cut corruption by 50%".