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The Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has condemned China’s ill-treatment and racial discrimination against Ghanaians and Africans in the Coronavirus crackdown.
It has been reported that Africans in southern China’s largest city, Guangzhou, have become targets of suspicion and have subsequently been subjected to forced evictions.
According to the reports, the Africans have been rendered homeless having been evicted from their homes by landlords and turned away from hotels.
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Recently, CNN reported that a news item on the People’s Government of Guangdong Province’s website on April 4 alleged that a Nigerian national with Covid-19 had attacked a Chinese nurse who tried to stop him leaving an isolation ward at a Guangzhou hospital. The report was shared widely on social media, and local Africans CNN spoke to say a racist backlash against the African community followed.
As at April 7, Guangzhou had reported 111 imported cases, including 25 foreign nationals. Among them, 9 were from Nigeria, 3 from Angola, 2 from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and 2 from Niger. Fearing a cluster among the African community, Guangzhou authorities upgraded the risk level of Yuexiu and Baiyun, the areas home to the city’s two African enclaves, from low to medium, state-owned Global Times reported.
However, Mrs Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey who is the Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister has condemned what is happening in China, summoning the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana Shi Ting Wans to call his government to bring their officials to order.
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A communication from the government of Ghana is expected to be issued within the next 24 hours to address the situation.
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