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Nigeria says 2 nationals were killed during anti-migrant violence in South Africa 16%
7/5/2026, 10:00:38 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Out-Group Homogeneity Bias, and Hasty Generalization, with Post Hoc (False Cause) as the most egregious example at 27.1% saturation with 60 hits. Analysis detected 470 faulty-reasoning hits from 221 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 32.5% and a BS Rank of 16% (17,195 of 20,472 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 84.00% of the article peer group.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria said Sunday that two of its nationals were killed last month in South Africa following violent anti-immigrant protests targeting African workers in the country.
The Nigerians were killed June 28, two days before an unofficial deadline by protesters for foreigners to leave, the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
One was allegedly killed by police officers and the other by unidentified attackers, it said.
South African police did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
Anti-immigrant protesters in April and May blamed foreigners for high levels of unemployment, crime and pressure on public services.
The violence at the protests and attacks on Africans prompted Nigeria, Ghana and Malawi to repatriate their citizens and summon South African diplomats in protest.
“These two killings come at a time when foreigners are being unduly targeted in South Africa.
This raises questions about deliberate attempt by some elements to wrongfully generalise and tag well-meaning, hard-working, and respectable Nigerians as criminals,” Nigerian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa said.
South Africa has a history of violence sparked by anger over the presence of migrants, including in 2008, when more than 60 people were killed in what international rights groups called xenophobic attacks on foreigners.
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