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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”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The tweet came a week after a Congolese man was beaten to death<\/a> in Delhi, with two other attacks on people from Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa in the national capital<\/a> and Hyderabad<\/a> a few days later. The Indian government has promised action against the attackers after numerous African diplomats asked<\/a> the government to take immediate steps to ensure the safety of their citizens, most of them students. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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”.\u00a0 SEE … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,1345,1112],"class_list":["post-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-india","tag-racism","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}