{"id":15147,"date":"2019-09-06T16:21:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=15147"},"modified":"2019-09-30T19:06:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T19:06:53","slug":"retaliation-attacks-against-south-africans-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/retaliation-attacks-against-south-africans-in-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"Retaliation attacks against South Africans in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Violence has erupted in Nigeria following the spate of xenophobic attakcs in South Africa. After Nigerians were among those attacked in Johannesburg and Pretoria in recent days, angry groups in the West African country have attacked South African businesses in response. Now some of those firms have closed their stores amid the violence.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Retaliation attacks against South Africans in Nigeria | DW News\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/duuUH8Uz3qo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence has erupted in Nigeria following the spate of xenophobic attakcs in South Africa. After Nigerians were among those attacked in Johannesburg and Pretoria in recent days, angry groups in the West African country have attacked South African businesses in response. 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