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Africa’s most industrialised country is a magnet for economic migrants and refugees but sees sporadic episodes of xenophobic violence.
South African police have evicted more than 100 asylum seekers camping for over three years outside the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Pretoria.
The asylum seekers began living in makeshift tents pitched outside the UNHCR offices as they asked to be relocated to other countries after a spate of xenophobic violence in 2019.
Pretoria municipality last week secured a high court order to remove them, and police did so on Friday.
The court…
