
‘Xenophobic attacks in South Africa constitute infringements on rights of Nigerians’
As South Africans intensify attacks on migrants in some major cities of the country, international human rights scholar, and Chief Executive Officer of AfriRIGHTS, Prof. Uchenna Emelonye has tasked the Nigerian government as well as regional bodies like ECOWAS and civil society organisations in the continent to step up advocacy to create awareness and give the issue the seriousness it deserves, calling it a systematic infringement on the fundamental human rights of migrants.