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South Africa: SA, Nigeria Committed to Close Ties
SAnews.gov.za, 8 September 2019
President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa and Nigeria are resolute in their shared commitment to build an Africa at peace with itself and others. Read more »
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and Nigerian Ambassador Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, the Special Envoy of President Muhammadu Buhari, met to discuss the rapidly deteriorating relationship between the two countries as xenophobic attacks by some South African citizens on African foreign nationals, among them Nigerians, flared up in the economic hub of Johannesburg.
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