{"id":20402,"date":"2019-09-05T10:16:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=20402"},"modified":"2019-09-05T10:16:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:16:02","slug":"south-africa-embassy-in-lagos-forced-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=20402","title":{"rendered":"South Africa closes embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The South African embassy in Lagos has been forced to temporarily&nbsp;shut its doors.<br \/><br \/> It joins local businesses in Nigeria, MTN and Shoprite, which have come under attack.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/> That&#8217;s after days of riots in South Africa targeting foreign-owned businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SA embassy in Lagos forced to close doors\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B3EtMKwxMXE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of International Relations and Cooperation&#8217;s Lunga Ngqengelele says the decision to shut down the embassy is out of concern for the safety employees of the embassy.<br \/><br \/> &#8220;We have been in communication with the Nigerian government and we have been assured of the protection of the businesses belonging to SA.&#8221;<br \/><br \/> &#8220;Nigerian police quelled the uprising from the Nigerians attacking SA business, we understand that arrests were made. We are pleased that there was no loss of life.&#8221;<br \/><br \/> Several African countries have expressed their dismay at the violence against their expatriates in South Africa.<br \/><br \/> Meanwhile, hundreds of Zambian students, dressed mostly in black and chanting &#8216;No Violence&#8217;, protested outside the South African High Commission in Lusaka.<br \/><br \/> Other African countries and the African Union have called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to take action.<br \/><br \/> Citizens from across the continent voiced their anger on social media, with some threatening retaliation.<br \/><br \/> By <strong>www.enca.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African embassy in Lagos has been forced to temporarily&nbsp;shut its doors. It joins local businesses in Nigeria, MTN and Shoprite, which have come under attack.&nbsp; That&#8217;s after days of riots in South Africa targeting foreign-owned businesses. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation&#8217;s Lunga Ngqengelele says the decision to shut down the embassy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}