CAPE TOWN, Sept 5 (Reuters) - South Africa has temporarily
closed its embassy in Nigeria after threats led to fears for
staff safety, Foreign Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor told
Reuters, after attacks this week on foreign-owned businesses in
South Africa caused a diplomatic spat.
She said South Africa was in constant contact with Nigerian
authorities to try to restore calm, adding there was no
provision in local law for compensation for damage caused in the
attacks.
"There is an Afrophobia we are sensing that exists, there is
resentment and we need to address that," Pandor said on the
sidelines of a continental economic conference in Cape Town.