Four days ago, Mozambican immigrant Lado Amido answered a knock at his door in the South African town of Kleinmond.
Outside, an angry crowd told him foreigners including Nigerians had to leave. They went door-to-door delivering the same message. Now over 1,000 Nigerians have indicated they want to return home.
Amido and others like him fled and spent two nights in the mountains. Now he is sheltering in a local town hall, like other immigrants from Malawi and Mozambique across South Africa’s Western Cape province, forced to hide from anti-immigrant mobs in several coastal towns.
Every day for more than two weeks, Aduke Balogun, a Nigerian has prayed for her daughter’s safe return.
South Africa has seen a wave of anti-immigrant protests, which have sometimes turned violent, in recent weeks. Mozambique said five of its citizens were killed in xenophobic attacks in the town of Mossel Bay over the weekend.
Amido lives
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