South Africa: Numbers Swell Outside UN Offices in Cape Town As Foreign Nationals Demand Evacuation Over Safety Fears

A crisis is brewing in Cape Town's CBD as more than 1 000 people camp in an arcade and demand that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees evacuates them from South Africa due to safety fears.

Speaking on behalf of a group calling themselves Women and Children at Concern, Pole Pole wa Pole said the people camping there were refugees and asylum seekers who no longer felt safe in South Africa due to prejudice and violence they had experienced.

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