{"id":242726,"date":"2026-08-31T08:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/south-africa-tinubu-takes-fight-against-xenophobic-afrophobic-attacks-by-south-africa-to-au\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:26:12","slug":"south-africa-tinubu-takes-fight-against-xenophobic-afrophobic-attacks-by-south-africa-to-au","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/south-africa-tinubu-takes-fight-against-xenophobic-afrophobic-attacks-by-south-africa-to-au\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Tinubu Takes Fight Against Xenophobic, Afrophobic Attacks By South Africa to AU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">President Bola Tinubu on Sunday formally lodged a complaint against the recurring xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks against Africans and other nationals in South Africa to the African Union (AU), warning that the incidents undermine the continent&#8217;s solidarity, unity and peaceful coexistence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">He specifically requested prompt collective action from the continent&#8217;s leaders, including the placement of this matter on the agenda for the 40th Ordinary Session of the Assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Tinubu made Nigeria&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608310106.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu on Sunday formally lodged a complaint against the recurring xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks against Africans and other nationals in South Africa to the African Union (AU), warning that the incidents undermine the continent&#8217;s solidarity, unity and peaceful coexistence. He specifically requested prompt collective action from the continent&#8217;s leaders, including the placement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681475:1b18250db63f96e706e315aeb310b049:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,55316,306,4345,257,393,5069,254,5056,8308,16856],"class_list":["post-242726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-afrophobic","tag-attacks","tag-fight","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes","tag-tinubu","tag-xenophobic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681475:1b18250db63f96e706e315aeb310b049:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}