| African ambassadors in China have written to the country’s foreign minister over what they call discrimination against Africans as the country seeks to prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus.
Several African countries have separately also demanded that China address their concerns that Africans, in particular in the southern city of Guangzhou, are being mistreated and harassed.
The ambassadors’ note, released in Johannesburg on Sunday, said such “stigmatisation and discrimination” created the false impression that the virus was being spread by Africans. The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s International Press Centre did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the note, sent outside of business hours.Foreign affairs official Liu Baochun told a news conference on Sunday that Guangzhou is enforcing anti-virus measures on anyone who enters the city from across the national border, regardless of nationality, race or gender.
Last Saturday, Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey said she had summoned the Chinese ambassador to express her disappointment and demand action.
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