A week after a series of attacks on Africans in Delhi, India’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj was trolled for a tweet asking Indians to shake hand and say “India loves you” every time they met an “African citizen”.
The tweet came a week after a Congolese man was beaten to death in Delhi, with two other attacks on people from Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa in the national capital and Hyderabad a few days later. The Indian government has promised action against the attackers after numerous African diplomats asked the government to take immediate steps to ensure the safety of their citizens, most of them students. Read more…
