Ghana Urged to Cut Ties with South Africa over Xenophobic Attacks

Ghanaian government has been urged to break ties with South Africa after another round of xenophobic attacks on Africans which has left five dead and several shops torched.

Ghana’s left-wing political movement, Economic Fighters League called for the severing of diplomatic ties in a statement available.

The statement signed by Fighter-General Hardi Yakubu said a break-off with the South African government will “force them to do the right thing.”

Human rights groups and several African governments have expressed worry that the South African government is doing little to deal with xenophobic rage.

The Nigerian government has summoned the South Africa High Commissioner while Zambia has warned truck drivers who work in the country to stay away.

Joining in the condemnation, the Economic Fighters League said the South African government ‘continues to deny the existence of the problem’.

South Africa’s police minister, Bheki Cele, said on Monday that “criminality rather than xenophobia” was to blame for the “senseless violence”.

President Cyril Ramaphosa also refused to call the attacks xenophobic describing it as ‘anti-foreign violence’.