Southern Africa's Migrant Exodus Deepens After South Africa's Anti-Migrant Deadline
Governments from Nairobi to Lilongwe move citizens out as vigilante pressure and mass arrests escalate.
The unofficial “deadline” for undocumented migrants to leave South Africa has triggered evacuations and repatriations across the region, with Kenya airlifting citizens, Malawians boarding buses out of Pietermaritzburg, and Mozambique reporting deaths in Western Cape violence. Rights groups tie the surge to vigilante movements exploiting 43-percent unemployment. For the African diaspora, the episode is a hard lesson in how quickly economic frustration can turn into a safety crisis for foreign nationals — and how thinly protected intra-continental migrants remain.
Source: CNN, Al Jazeera, Kenyans.co.ke.