{"id":33746,"date":"2026-05-05T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33746"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:27:27","slug":"over-100-nigerians-seek-repatriation-from-sa-after-protests","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/over-100-nigerians-seek-repatriation-from-sa-after-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 Nigerians seek repatriation from SA after protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">At least 130 Nigerian citizens in South Africa (SA) have asked \u200bto be flown home following protests targeting foreigners, Nigerian Foreign \u200cMinister Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The applicants are the first under a new Nigerian government-assisted repatriation scheme, Ojukwu said on Sunday, amid fears that confrontations in \u200bSA could escalate.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Protesters held rallies in Pretoria and Johannesburg \u200blast week, demanding tougher action against illegal immigration, saying \u2060undocumented foreign nationals were putting pressure on jobs, security and public \u200bservices.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Migrant-rights groups say foreigners are often scapegoated for SA&#8217;s economic \u200bproblems.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Nigeria condemns the violence against its citizens in SA, including the deaths of two Nigerians allegedly assaulted by security officials, Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, a Spokesperson \u200bfor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on Monday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14770,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-33746","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"About 130 Nigerian citizens in SA have asked \u200bto return home","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33747,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33746\/revisions\/33747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}