With the dawn of another variant of Coronavirus pandemic, known as Omicron, world’s advanced nations rally against Africa with travel ban, what is now known as apartheid against the continent, as Nigeria’s anger is stirred against UK for putting her in the red list. Chinedu Eze writes that politics, economic exploitation and racism might be behind the knee-jerk reaction and boycott of Africa over Omicron
When South Africa announced the new strain of Coronavirus pandemic on November 25, the reaction was shocking, as many countries began to ban flights from South Africa and other nations of the southern sub-region.
With that announcement countries banned flight operations to South Africa, Bostwana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe and later Canada included Nigeria, Egypt and Malawi, where air travellers are banned from coming to the North American country.
Few days after the announcement, the countries that banned flights to these African nations include:…
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