In a joint statement this week from envoys of multiple African nations in Delhi, the African Heads of Mission said Indian authorities had failed to “sufficiently condemn” or take “visible deterring measures,” against “xenophobic and racial” attacks on Nigerian students that occurred in the city last Monday. Hundreds of residents of Greater Noida, outside New Delhi, had gone on a violent rampage, attacking Africans for the death of a local teenage boy from a suspected drug overdose. The 19-year old Indian victim’s parents and members of the community have blamed Nigerian students for supplying drugs in the area. Local police … Continue reading Racial tensions continue to rise in India amid attacks against Nigerians, Africans