Huddled under a highway bridge with a small bag of belongings, a 19-year-old student from Ivory Coast was desperately dialling his few contacts in China.
Huddled under a highway bridge with a small bag of belongings, a 19-year-old student from Ivory Coast was desperately dialing his few contacts in China. The student said he arrived in the southern city of Guangzhou last week, after completing his quarantine in another city, during a Covid-19 coronavirus clampdown that several African countries and Africans in the city say has unfairly targeted them.
Several African ambassadors wrote to China’s foreign minister last week, calling for the “cessation of forceful testing, quarantine and other inhuman treatments meted out to Africans”.Ghana’s foreign minister on Saturday called in China’s ambassador to convey his government’s concern. China’s foreign ministry said on Monday that all foreigners are treated equally.
Last week, authorities announced that two neighbourhoods popular with Africans would be locked down to curb the coronavirus after five Nigerians tested positive. Guangzhou was home to 13 652 Africans last year and about 351 000 Africans entered the city from abroad last year, official figures show. “For a white person, you can’t rent around here now because of the virus, but you’ll be welcome again in a few months,” said one agent, referring to when the pandemic passes. She declined to give her name.A spokesperson for McDonald’s in China apologised on Tuesday after staff at a Guangzhou branch forced black customers to leave.
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