Ghana has escalated a complaint over attacks on its citizens in South Africa, urging the African Union (AU) to weigh in after a spate of anti-foreigner protests fanned fears of xenophobic violence.
The move steps up diplomatic pressure on Pretoria, which is trying to calm concerns on the continent that South Africa could suffer another spasm of the violence that has periodically terrorised its immigrant communities.
The attacks “pose serious risk to the safety and wellbeing of many African nationals residing in South Africa”, Ghanaian Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said.
