{"id":8717,"date":"2012-03-09T02:59:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T00:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africa-tells-nigeria-sorry-over-yellow-fever-row\/"},"modified":"2012-03-09T02:59:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T00:59:27","slug":"s-africa-tells-nigeria-sorry-over-yellow-fever-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-tells-nigeria-sorry-over-yellow-fever-row\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa tells Nigeria sorry over yellow fever row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Row was growing after 125 Nigerians deported<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa says incident was handled badly<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Two African powers jostle for regional dominance<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Cosmas Butunyi<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>PRETORIA, March 8 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa apologised<br \/>\nto Nigeria on Thursday for deporting 125 Nigerians accused of<br \/>\ntrying to enter the country with fake vaccination certificates,<br \/>\nseeking to defuse a growing dispute between Africa&#8217;s two biggest<br \/>\neconomies.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Deputy foreign minister Ebrahim Ismail told a news<br \/>\nconference the government had sent a letter of apology over the<br \/>\n&#8220;regrettable incident&#8221; that spiralled into tit-for-tat<br \/>\nexpulsions of South Africans and a threat of action against<br \/>\nSouth African companies in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last week, officials at Johannesburg airport deported 125<br \/>\nNigerians, saying their yellow fever vaccination certificates<br \/>\nwere fakes &#8211; the latest twist in a long-standing rivalry between<br \/>\nthe powers vying for dominance in the continent.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria responded with the deportation of 84 South Africans.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The South African government is not seeking an apology from<br \/>\nNigeria over the deportation of its citizens, Ebrahim told<br \/>\nreporters, flanked by Nigerian diplomats.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Row was growing after 125 Nigerians deported * South Africa says incident was handled badly * Two African powers jostle for regional dominance By Cosmas Butunyi PRETORIA, March 8 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa apologised to Nigeria on Thursday for deporting 125 Nigerians accused of trying to enter the country with fake vaccination certificates, seeking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}