Currently the Indian government is facing tough questions from the African diplomatic community that has planned to stay away from this year’s Africa Day celebrations in protest against the murder of a Congolese national in Delhi and other attacks and harassment of African students in various parts of the country.
It is said that Congo’s Masonda Ketada Oliver, 29 was beaten to death by three men around 11.30pm on Friday after an altercation over the hiring of an auto-rickshaw near Kishangarh village in Vasant Kunj area in south Delhi.
A statement by Alem Tsehage Woldemariam, ambassador of Eritrea and the dean of the Group of African Heads of Mission has said that the Group of African Heads of Mission have met and deliberated extensively on this latest incidence in the series of attacks to which members of the African community have been subjected to in the last several years.
The External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has told that she had asked junior foreign minister VK Singh to meet the heads of missions of African countries and assure them of India’s commitment to the safety and security of African nationals.
